Notepads where a feature of RTEMS' tasks that simply functioned in
the same way as POSIX keys or threaded local storage (TLS). They were
introduced well before per task variables, which are also deprecated,
and were barely used in favor of their POSIX alternatives.
In addition to their scarce usage, Notepads took up unnecessary memory.
For each task:
- 16 32-bit integers were allocated.
- A total of 64 bytes per task per thread.
This is especially critical in low memory and safety-critical applications.
They are also defined as uint32_t, and therefore are not guaranteed to
hold a pointer.
Lastly, they are not portable solutions for SMP and uniprocessor systems,
like POSIX keys and TLS.
updates #2493.
The problem exists for both RTEMS untar implementations and their
variants: Untar_FromMemory(), Untar_FromFile() and rtems_tarfs_load().
If filesystem object already exists at extracted directory path
then if it is directory, creation is ignored. Attempt
to delete/unlink object and make directory is tried for other cases.
This simple approach problem reported in ticket fixes#2413.
Behavior follows GNU tar and BSD tar practice for directories
but much more work is required to achieve full semantics
of the full featured tar implementation still.
Compiling dumpbuf.c causes the following warning to be issued:
warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'snprintf' differ in signedness [-Wpointer-sign]
This happens because line_buffer is declared as unsigned.
Closes#2411.
This mutex implementation uses a thread priority queue with a simple
priority inheritance mechanism (similar to the object based mutexes).
The storage space must be supplied by the user (16 bytes on 32-bit
targets).
Move the storage for the thread queue heads to the threads. Each thread
provides a set of thread queue heads allocated from a dedicated memory
pool. In case a thread blocks on a queue, then it lends its heads to
the queue. In case the thread unblocks, then it takes a free set of
threads from the queue. Since a thread can block on at most one queue
this works. This mechanism is used in FreeBSD. The motivation for this
change is to reduce the memory demands of the synchronization objects.
On a 32-bit uni-processor configuration the Thread_queue_Control size is
now 8 bytes, compared to 64 bytes in RTEMS 4.10 (other changes reduced
the size as well).
This was obsolete and broken based upon recent time keeping changes.
Thie build option was previously enabled by adding
USE_TICKS_FOR_STATISTICS=1 to the configure command line.
This propagated into the code as preprocessor conditionals
using the __RTEMS_USE_TICKS_FOR_STATISTICS__ conditional.
The cpuuse top command now supports the current load where the list of
tasks is ordered based on the current load rather than the total cpu usage.
This lets you see what is using the processor at any specific instance.
The ability to sort on a range of thread values is now supported.
Added memory usage stats for unified and separate workspace and C heaps as
well as displaying the allocated stack space.
Added a few more command keys to refresh the display, show all tasks in the
system, control the lines display and a scrolling mode that does not clear
the display on each refresh.
Removed support for tick kernel builds. The tick support in the kernel is to
be removed.
A thread join is twofold. There is one thread that exists and an
arbitrary number of threads that wait for the thread exit (one-to-many
relation). The exiting thread may want to wait for a thread that wants
to join its exit (STATES_WAITING_FOR_JOIN_AT_EXIT in
_POSIX_Thread_Exit()). On the other side we need a thread queue for all
the threads that wait for the exit of one particular thread
(STATES_WAITING_FOR_JOIN in pthread_join()).
Update #2035.
The printing of 64bit diff's for the timestamp did not work on ARM
so I have changed this to 32bit. A 32bit nano-second diff between
events should be more than enough time.
Print '____' for POSIX thread output.
Deprecate Classic API Notepads. Mark task_set/get_note() with
the deprecated attribute, and also mark the notepads field.
Replace disable with enable option for notepads in confdefs.h,
and make notepads disabled by default. The previous option
CONFIGURE_DISABLE_CLASSIC_API_NOTEPADS is now unused and
will emit a compile-time warning. A new option
CONFIGURE_ENABLE_CLASSIC_API_NOTEPADS is available to turn
on notepads, but it also will emit a compile-time warning
to indicate that notepads are deprecated.
Closes#2265
Sebastian Huber
Aun-Ali Zaidi
Nick Withers
Pavel Pisa
Martin Galvan
Joel Sherrill
Chris Johns
Daniel Hellstrom
Gedare Bloom