The reentrant versions of the malloc functions in
c/src/lib/libc/malloc.c
do not match the definitions in newlib. These will be used if you use
newlib routines such as fdopen. I believe this patch to malloc.c is
needed to provide the correct versions.
Remember the test to see if a socket could be read and written at
the same time by two different tasks? I discovered that if both
tasks attempt to close the socket a panic can occur from inside the
BSD code.
Closing the same socket twice from two different threads is
certainly an error, but a panic is not the greatest error reporting
method :-)
The following small change to the socket close routine should reduce
the chances of the panic.
1. Finally fixes raw interrupts for pc386
2. Makes some minor cleanup in console and startup
3. Makes rtems_termios_dequeue_characters() to return count of
outstanding chars - it allows to simplify console isrs a little
bit.
4. pc386 uart modified to be friendlier to termios parameter changes,
to have minor performance improvement and to take advantage of
of above termios modification.
Here's a patch to make the rtems_showroute routine a little more
useful. For `host' route table entries the link-level address is now
displayed. This is equivalent to the old `show arp table'
information displayed by the KA9Q code.
I fixed the problems noted by Victor Vengerov.
1) Fix typo in cfsetispeed().
2) In rtems_termios_open, ensure that args->iop->data1 is set before calling
device-specific open routine.
I've fixed a few minor probs with the optimised version that Eric put
together for me the other day and sent the fixes back to him. Provided he
doesn't have a problem with it we've got a pretty solid in_cksum for the
ColdFire as well as straight m68k. I've enclosed my updated in_cksum_m68k.c
At the moment my own bottlenecks are elsewhere...as my driver is pulling
16bit data chunks through a libchip-esq access routine from the chip which
for a polled I/O device is never going to be quick.
Eric> NB : there is still a bug on PC386 serial line : exit does not
Eric> flush the remaining output queue. As this is not a bug in the
Eric> driver itself but somewhere in PC386 initialization/termios
Eric> relationship it will be part of another patch.
Eric> NB2 : As Emmanuel excerced the exception hanlder code, while
Eric> porting the SMC driver to the new BSD stack, we found a bug
Eric> in the exception handler : it shall not delete the current
Eric> thread in case we are running at interrupt level. This will
Eric> be part of another patch...
So here is the patch. This patch fixes the two problems mentionned above
+ it use vpath mechanism intead of copying the irq related files in
the right directory. This avoid to compile them each time and is
more homogenous with other Makefiles.
I think I figured out why rtems_panic was locking up instead of
shutting down the executive and returning to the code that called
boot_card().
Later on there is code to print some messages on the standard error
stream, a recursive call back to rtems_verror (through rtems_error)
and finally a call to _exit().
I think that the _Thread_Disable_dispatch() is preventing the final
context switch back to the boot_card() code. Does this sound right
to you?
Here is a patch that enables to catch exception
and get message before crashing RTEMS :)
It should be generic to any Intel port although enabled
only for pc386 BSP...
[Joel] I fixed the bug I introduced in irq_asm.s...
"Thomas Doerfler" <td@imd.m.isar.de> wrote:
>
> While implementing/testing the console/termios support for
> PPC403 in RTEMS-4.0.0-beta3, I am stuck at a certain location in
> termios.c:
>
> During "rtems_termios_initialize", the main control data structure
> "*tty" is allocated using malloc(). (Note, that malloc does not
> clear the allocated memory and my BSP does not clear memory during
> startup). Furtheron, a lot of fields of that structure are
> initialized, but the field "rawOutBufState" is not, and therefore
> keeps an arbitrary contents.
>
> When "osend()" is called the first time(with the serial device
> driver working in interrupt mode), termios gets stuck and will not
> call the device drivers output function.
>
> My questions now are:
>
> - anybody already experienced this bug?
> - is it a bug at all or did I do anything fundamentally wrong?
> - is there already a common bugfix for that?
>
> I don't like poking around in other people code, as long as I am
> not absolutely sure, what I do...
Yes, there's a bug there.
I thought that Joel had patched this already, but here's a patch to
fix this. This patch also addresses a concern that many others have
raised regarding enabling and disabling of transmitter interrupts.
First, here's the example I've been using of a simple UART-style
interrupt-driven driver:
===============================================================
void
device_write_routine (int minor, char *buf, int count)
{
UART->control_register &= ~UART_TRANSMITTER_READY;
UART->output_register = *buf;
UART->control_register |= UART_TRANSMIT_INTERRUPT_ENABLE;
}
void
device_transmit_interrupt_routine (int vector)
{
UART->control_register &= ~UART_TRANSMIT_INTERRUPT_ENABLE;
rtems_termios_dequeue_characters (device_ttyp, 1);
}
==============================================================
Several people have expressed their concern about the disable/enable
of transmitter interrupts for every character. On some machines
this disable/enable is an expensive operation. With the attached
patch applied you can write the two routines as:
==============================================================
void
device_write_routine (int minor, char *buf, int count)
{
code_to_clear_transmitter_ready_status ();
if (device_ttyp->rawOutBufState == rob_idle)
code_to_enable_transmitter_interrupts ();
code_to_send_one_character_to_transmitter (*buf);
}
void
device_transmit_interrupt_routine (int vector)
{
rtems_termios_dequeue_characters (device_ttyp, 1);
if (device_ttyp->rawOutBufState == rob_idle)
code_to_disable_transmitter_interrupts ();
}
===============================================================
- Use the "hlt" instruction for the Idle thread,
- Optimise interrupt PATH leadding to thread wakeup,
- Preparation for Intel exception management that should
come before the end of the week...
Here is a enhanced version of my previous patch. This patch enables
to potentially share the new interrupt management code for all Intel targets
(pc386, go32 and force386) bsp.
Note : this patch is complete only for pc386. It still needs to
be completed for go32 and force386. I carrefully checked
that anything needed is in for force386 (only some function
name changes for IDT manipulation and GDT segment
manipulation). But anyway I will not be able to test any
of theses targets...
returned a buffer which was not zero-filled, the reference count
was not correct. When the application exitted, the "lastClose"
handler was not being called to flush the output. This problem
had manifested itself on a variety of platforms.
The function rtems_termios_dequeue_characters() incorrectly incremented
the buffer pointers when it was invoked and there were no characters
in the ring buffer. This problem had also manifested itself on a
variety of platforms. The symptom was a strange repeating of the
data in the transmitter buffer when the transmitter serial device
was supposed to go idle.
Haven't had a chance to do an extensive shake-out of 980710, but it
builds just fine on FreeBSD 2.2.5 (after termios is fixed using the
attached patch), and the tests run fine. FYI: FreeBSD doesn't support
System V IPC out of the box, but one only needs to add three options
to the kernel build configuration file, recompile the kernel, and
you're ready.
task to be deleted was created via the same API (i.e. were of the object
class created by this API). For example, a POSIX thread calling
the rtems_task_delete(SELF) directive would incorrectly update the RTEMS
object local pointer table.
Jennifer discovered this when moving tests implemented in C using the
Classic RTEMS API into a tree of Ada tests. The Ada tests were implicitly
using POSIX services. This lead to some unexpected behavior.
Joel Sherrill