ELECTRONIC DEVICE THAT ENSURES SIMPLIFIED COMPETITION AVOIDING CONTROL, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20160292010A1
• Filed: 02/23/2016
• Published: 10/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: MAESONO, Yuya
• Application Number:
  US15/051,152
• Publication Number:
  US 20160292010A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/52 Program synchronisation; Mutual exclusion, e.g. by means of semaphores

Abstract

An electronic device includes a memory and a processor. The memory has a storage region and stores a control program to control the electronic device in the storage region. The processor executes the control program, when the control program is executed, the processor operates; an access counter that has a specific initial value and avoids an access competition to an access object accessed from a plurality of tasks; a high priority level task that increments the access counter when starting an access to the access object, and decrements the access counter when completing the access to the access object; and a low priority level task that accesses the access object when the access counter has the specific initial value.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a memory that has a storage region and stores a control program to control the electronic device in the storage region; and

a processor that executes the control program, when the control program is executed, the processor operates;

an access counter that has a specific initial value and avoids an access competition to an access object accessed from a plurality of tasks;

a high priority level task that increments the access counter when starting an access to the access object, and decrements the access counter when completing the access to the access object; and

a low priority level task that accesses the access object when the access counter has the specific initial value.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein, when the control program is executed, the processor operates the low priority level task to poll the access counter to confirm the value of the access counter at specific time interval when the value of the access counter is not the specific initial value.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein, when the control program is executed, the processor:

stops a process of the low priority level task temporarily when the low priority level task has entered to a state for waiting an event semaphore;

operates an operating system that resumes the process of the low priority level task that has been stopped temporarily, when the event semaphore is flashed;

operates the low priority level task to confirm the value of the access counter before accessing the access object, to enter a state where the low priority level task waits an event semaphore, when the value of the access counter is not the specific initial value, and to access the access object when the event semaphore is flashed;

operates the high priority level task to confirm the value of the access counter when completing the access to the access object and decrementing the access counter, and to flash the event semaphore when the value of the access counter is the specific initial value.

4. The electronic device according to claim 3,

wherein, when the control program is executed, the processor:

operates the low priority level task to specify a specific timeout period when entering the state for waiting the event semaphore;

operates the operating system to notify the low priority level task that the specific timeout period has passed, when the specific timeout period has passed,

operates the low priority level task to confirm the value of the access counter when the low priority level task is in the state for waiting the event semaphore and is notified that the specific timeout period has passed.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a control program for controlling an electronic device, the control program causing a processor of the electronic device to operate:

an access counter that has a specific initial value and avoids an access competition to an access object accessed from a plurality of tasks;

a high priority level task that increments the access counter when starting an access to the access object, and decrements the access counter when completing the access to the access object; and

a low priority level task that accesses the access object when the access counter has the specific initial value.