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Re: [ECOS] [SMP]serious bug in synchronisation primitives
- From: sandeep <shimple0 at yahoo dot com>
- To: sandeep <shimple0 at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: ecos-devel at ecos dot sourceware dot org, ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:03:15 +0530
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] [SMP]serious bug in synchronisation primitives
- References: <417F9890.7080209@yahoo.com>
A quick solution (for time being) that can take care of majority (haven't looked
if it will take care of all the situations) of problem situations, would be to
do CYG_KERNEL_CPU_THIS() involving array accesses in simple inline accessor
functions in sched.hxx under disable---restore interrupts protection, to ensure
that invoking thread does not get scheduled out in middle of it.
however it is a costly solution, considering that these inlines would be called
quite often. if possible, better solutions would be preferrable.
in case we go with disable--restore model to handle the problem in global way,
could it be possible to have slightly separate names macros for
disabling--restoring the interrupts here?
considering the SMP HAL i have worked with so far, i would prefer using slightly
tweaked versions/ asm-inlines if needed, that reduce the instructions involved
in the process as compared to normal DISABLE-RESTORE, taking advantage of the
fact that I need to do it for a very small section of code, for a small time and
that no switching etc. will be happening during it.
if modifications were to be done in HAL, would have done by now. would avoid
making modifications in non-HAL code as far as possible, to make it convenient
to keep in sync with regular eCos cvs.
as one colleague mentioned, this could be possibly last stumbling block in
getting a stable SMP eCos on SOC architecture we have worked upon.
comments/feedbacks awaited.
sandeep