Experimental Physics and
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Mark Rivers <[email protected]> · Wed, 3 Jul 2013 17:37:42 +0000

> I am not an expert of the internals of asyn. What does
> "synchronousLock:Yes" mean?

The "synchronousLock" is a per-port epicsMutex.  synchchronousLock:Yes means that the mutex is currently being held by some thread.  The synchronousLock is used to protect code in several places, including when a synchronous driver (i.e. one created without the ASYN_CANBLOCK attribute) calls the client callback.  It is also the mutex that is used by pasynManager-lockPort().

There is one other per-port mutex used by asyn which is called asynManagerLock.  I have looked at the asyn code carefully and I believe that asynManagerLock and synchronousLock are always locked/unlocked properly.

Brian, can you please send your StreamDevice protocol file?  Also, are you using the standard asyn IP driver, or are you using some other asyn port driver?

Mark

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From: Dirk Zimoch [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 6:49 AM
To: Mark Rivers
Cc: Brian McAllister; [email protected]
Subject: Re: asyn+streamDevice hangs with synchronousLock:Yes

On 02.07.2013 20:27, Mark Rivers wrote:
> When it is hung please do
>
> epicsMutexShowAll 1
>
> I think you have probably run into a deadlock, which can happen when multiple mutexes are taken/released in the wrong order.
>
> If you simplfy your problem to a single record does the problem go away?
>
> I am not an expert on using I/O Intr scanned records with StreamDevice, particularly multiple records on the same port.  Dirk may be able to help with this.
>
> Mark
>

I am not an expert of the internals of asyn. What does
"synchronousLock:Yes" mean?

Dirk

>
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Brian McAllister [[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 1:23 PM
> To: Mark Rivers
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: asyn+streamDevice hangs with synchronousLock:Yes
>
> What does it mean if synchronousLock is permanently "Yes" ?
>
> I see it's a mutex and that it's used in many places.  Is there any way to
> find out where it is being locked/not unlocked ?
>
> - brian

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System