scsi detect and kgdb

I have been writing a scsi module and as part of the module initialisation I would like to delay while waiting for a specific condition. I have tried to put the detect routine in a loop which spins on jiffies + a timeout and my hardware condition. I had all sorts of problems with this code and I found that module load locked up. I tried using barrier and schedule in this loop and found that schedule worked for me most of the time.

I thought I would have a look at the code with kgdb. Firstly I noticed that schedule is not defined in the kgdb enabled kernel. Also even if I put this detect routine in a spin for a while my interrupts do not get serviced until after this spin and quite possibly not until the detect routine returns.

I would like to know the correct way to facilitate a delay in a scsi module detect routine, while waiting for a hardware condition which gets satisfied by a number of interrupts. If this condition is not met in a timeout period the code also continue.

I would also like to understand the kgdb kernel behaviour.

I am running a 2.4.16 kernel.

Cheers

Simon.
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Simon Haynes - Baydel
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