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Article #2544how to free up allocated clists ?
From: Paul Barton-Davis
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 00:19
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 00:19
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Here's an easy one for someone. I presumed a need to free up any
allocated clist cblocks that have been allocated by my device driver
when I finally close the device. It wasn't clear to me how to do this
from the descriptions of the various put/get clblock options, but
here's what I came up with (the entire close entry point is included):
pc21close (dev, flag)
dev_t dev;
int flag;
{
register int unit;
register int i;
struct cblock *free_block;
int x;
if ((unit = minor (dev)) >= pc21_max)
{
u.u_error = ENODEV;
return;
}
/* mark the board as available
*/
pc21_params[unit].status &= ~PC21_BUSY;
/* remove cblocks from output clist
*/
X x = splcli();
X while ((free_block = getcb (&(pc21_params[unit].output))) !=
X (struct cblock *) NULL)
X putcf (free_block);
X splx (x);
u.u_error = 0;
return;
}
Can someone tell me if the lines marked with an "X" do what I want
them to: get each allocated cblock and return it too the free list ?
Is there a better way to do this, or can I even forget about it
completely ?
Thanks for any advice - I'm hoping this isn't the source of a problem
we're having on a machine running this driver.
--
Paul Barton-Davis <pauld@cs.washington.edu>
Man has survived because he did not know how to realize his wishes.
Now that he can realize them, he must either change them, or perish.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!stowe.cs.washington.edu!pauld From: pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: how to free up allocated clists ? Message-ID: <1991Jun19.001950.10530@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Date: 19 Jun 91 00:19:50 GMT Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle Lines: 53 Originator: pauld@stowe.cs.washington.edu