Re: [ECOS] Using instrument buffer by applications?

[Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 07:00:52PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'm looking into ways to get some sort of event history/log
> info out of eCos apps.  I've been looking at the instrument
> buffer mechanism that's implimented in the eCos kernel, but it
> doesn't really look appropriate.
> 
> The main issue is that the timestamp in a log record is the
> number of HAL counter ticks since the last system tick. The
> only way that value is meaningful is if you have the kernel
> configured to instrument system ticks. But, if you do that the
> instrument buffer fills up with virtually nothing but 1ms
> system ticks.  Even with 10ms system ticks, they're still going
> to completely swamp out events that might only happen once
> every few minutes.
> 
> Has anybody used the instrument buffer scheme to log
> application events?

I have, but my events were over a short period of time.

Interestingly, if you look in
packages/kernel/current/src/instrmnt/meminst.cxx you will find:

#ifdef CYGVAR_KERNEL_COUNTERS_CLOCK        
//        p->timestamp        = Cyg_Clock::real_time_clock->current_value_lo();
        HAL_CLOCK_READ( &p->timestamp );
#else
        p->timestamp        = 0;
#endif

so it looks like you can change from HW ticks to slower eCos timer
ticks.

        Andrew

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