Obtaining Semaphore in a Interrupt?

[leonard.bise at syderal.ch (Leonard Bise)]

Hi all,

On the project I'm working on we need to protect a ressource from being 
accessed by multiple tasks. 
For this purpose we use a binary semaphore that is created in the 
following manner : 

sc = rtems_semaphore_create( rtems_build_name( 'D', 'R', 'V', 's' ), 1,
 RTEMS_BINARY_SEMAPHORE | RTEMS_INHERIT_PRIORITY
                                              | RTEMS_PRIORITY, 
RTEMS_NO_PRIORITY, &semDriver );


We use a board based on a LEON2 Processor and we use a few ISR as well. 
These ISRs must often access the same protected ressources when triggered.

The problem arise when we are in a task that is in the middle of accessing 
the protected ressources and that it obtains the semaphore and that 
directly after an interrupt is triggered. The ISR would ask for a 
semaphore when the last one was not released yet, because it is in the 
middle of being processed. We then get a deadlock!

Could anyone please help me on this ? I guess the best way is to not use 
semaphore in ISR but how can i protect my ressource then !

The version used of RTEMS is 4.6.6

Regards,

Bise L?onard
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