Nuttx currently has 2 types of sleep interfaces:
1. Signal-scheduled sleep: nxsig_sleep() / nxsig_usleep() / nxsig_nanosleep()
Weaknesses:
a. Signal-dependent: The signal-scheduled sleep method is bound to the signal framework, while some driver sleep operations do not depend on signals.
b. Timespec conversion: Signal-scheduled sleep involves timespec conversion, which has a significant impact on performance.
2. Busy sleep: up_mdelay() / up_udelay()
Weaknesses:
a. Does not actively trigger scheduling, occupy the CPU loading.
3. New interfaces: Scheduled sleep: nxsched_sleep() / nxsched_usleep() / nxsched_msleep() / nxsched_ticksleep()
Strengths:
a. Does not depend on the signal framework.
b. Tick-based, without additional computational overhead.
Currently, the Nuttx driver framework extensively uses nxsig_* interfaces. However, the driver does not need to rely on signals or timespec conversion.
Therefore, a new set of APIs is added to reduce dependencies on other modules.
(This PR also aims to make signals optional, further reducing the code size of Nuttx.)
Signed-off-by: chao an <anchao.archer@bytedance.com>
Most tools used for compliance and SBOM generation use SPDX identifiers
This change brings us a step closer to an easy SBOM generation.
Signed-off-by: Alin Jerpelea <alin.jerpelea@sony.com>
State of problem:
- Some drivers that do not support write operations (does not
have write handler or ioctl do not perform any write actions)
are registered with write permissions
- Some drivers that do not support read operation (does not
have read handler or ioctl do not perform any read actions)
are registered with read permissions
- Some drivers are registered with execute permissions
Solution:
- Iterate code where register_driver() is used and change 'mode'
parameter to reflect the actual read/write operations executed
by a driver
- Remove execute permissions from 'mode' parameter
Signed-off-by: Petro Karashchenko <petro.karashchenko@gmail.com>
DS Automotion GmbH has submitted the SGA and we can migrate the licenses
to Apache.
Gregory Nutt has submitted the SGA and we can migrate the licenses
to Apache.
Signed-off-by: Alin Jerpelea <alin.jerpelea@sony.com>
Squashed commit of the following:
Change all calls to usleep() in the OS proper to calls to nxsig_usleep()
sched/signal: Add a new OS internal function nxsig_usleep() that is functionally equivalent to usleep() but does not cause a cancellaption point and does not modify the errno variable.
sched/signal: Add a new OS internal function nxsig_sleep() that is functionally equivalent to sleep() but does not cause a cancellaption point.
