WinCE

In my previous post, I have explained how to add an interrupt when source code is available.

Now I will explain how to handle an interrupt by writing an IST in the driver. For the reason of continuity, I am using the same power button driver and the Wireless Activity Interrupt (as I explain with in post "Adding Interrupt in OAL").

1. Create an even to be associated with the interrupt

HANDLE g_WlanActiveEvent = CreateEvent(NULL, FALSE, FALSE, NULL);
if( !g_WlanActiveEvent)
{
RETAILMSG(1, (TEXT("WlanActivityMonitorStart: Failed to create Intterupt Event\r\n")));
goto CleanUp;
}

2. Associate the Interrupt with the event using SYSINTR value

UINT32 g_SysIntr = SYSINTR_WLAN;
......
result = InterruptInitialize(g_SysIntr, g_WlanActiveEvent, NULL, 0);
if(!result)
{
RETAILMSG(1, (TEXT("WlanActivityMonitorStart: InterruptInitialize() failed. GetLastError=0x%x\r
\n"),GetLastError()));
goto CleanUp;
}

3. Start a thread for handling the interrupt.

g_WlanThread = CreateThread(NULL, 0, (LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE) WlanThread, NULL, 0, NULL);
if ( g_WlanThread == NULL )
{
RETAILMSG(1, (TEXT("WlanActivityMonitorStart: Failed to create WlanActive
Intterupt Thread\r\n")));
goto CleanUp;
}

4. In the thread, wait for the event to happen using the WaitForSingleObject or WaitForMultipleObjects API.

INT WlanThread (VOID)
{
while(!g_FlagExitThrd)
{
WaitForSingleObject(g_WlanActiveEvent, INFINITE);
.............
}
return ERROR_SUCCESS;
}

5. Perform the necessary operations to service that interrupt. Here I am pulsing another event to notify some other sets of appication.

WaitForSingleObject(g_WlanActiveEvent, INFINITE);
InterruptMask(g_SysIntr,TRUE);

if (g_WlanEvent)
{
RETAILMSG(1, (TEXT("WlanThread: Intterupt \r\n")));
PulseEvent(g_WlanEvent);
}

Sleep (1000); // Sleep to ignore some activity as this line toggles a lot
InterruptMask(g_SysIntr,FALSE);

6. Signal the completion of interrupt handling using InterruptDone

InterruptDone(g_SysIntr);