source: rtems/cpukit/posix/include/rtems/posix/priorityimpl.h @ 77ff5599

/**
 * @file
 * 
 * @brief POSIX Priority Support
 *
 * This include file defines the interface to the POSIX priority
 * implementation.
 */

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#ifndef _RTEMS_POSIX_PRIORITYIMPL_H
#define _RTEMS_POSIX_PRIORITYIMPL_H

#include <rtems/score/scheduler.h>

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/**
 * @defgroup POSIX_PRIORITY POSIX Priority Support
 *
 * @ingroup POSIXAPI
 *
 * @brief Interface to the POSIX Priority Implementation.
 *
 * @{
 */

/**
 *  This is the numerically least important POSIX priority.
 */
#define POSIX_SCHEDULER_MINIMUM_PRIORITY (1)

/**
 * @brief Gets the maximum POSIX API priority for this scheduler instance.
 *
 * Such a priority is valid.  A scheduler instance may support priority values
 * that are not representable as an integer.
 *
 * @return The maximum POSIX API priority for this scheduler instance.
 */
int _POSIX_Priority_Get_maximum( const Scheduler_Control *scheduler );

/**
 * @brief Converts the POSIX API priority to the corresponding SuperCore
 * priority and validates it.
 * 
 * According to POSIX, numerically higher values represent higher priorities.
 * Thus, SuperCore has priorities run in the opposite sense of the POSIX API.
 *
 * Let N be the maximum priority of this scheduler instance.   The SuperCore
 * priority zero is system reserved (PRIORITY_PSEUDO_ISR).  There are only
 * N - 1 POSIX API priority levels since a thread at SuperCore priority N would
 * never run because of the idle threads.  This is necessary because GNAT maps
 * the lowest Ada task priority to the lowest thread priority.  The lowest
 * priority Ada task should get to run, so there is a fundamental conflict with
 * having N priorities.
 *
 * @param[in] scheduler The scheduler instance.
 * @param[in] priority The POSIX API priority to convert and validate.
 * @param[out] valid Indicates if the POSIX API priority is valid and a
 *   corresponding SuperCore priority in the specified scheduler instance
 *   exists.
 *
 * @return The corresponding SuperCore priority.
 */
Priority_Control _POSIX_Priority_To_core(
  const Scheduler_Control *scheduler,
  int                      priority,
  bool                    *valid
);

/**
 * @brief Converts the SuperCore priority to the corresponding POSIX API
 * priority.
 *
 * @param[in] scheduler The scheduler instance.
 * @param[in] priority The SuperCore priority to convert.
 *
 * @return The corresponding POSIX API priority.
 */
int _POSIX_Priority_From_core(
  const Scheduler_Control *scheduler,
  Priority_Control         priority
);

/** @} */

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif