Re: [Xenomai-core] Re: POSIX include problem

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

Jan Kiszka wrote:
 > Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
 > > Jan Kiszka wrote:
 > >  > Hi Gilles,
 > >  > 
 > >  > don't know yet what's going wrong, but the following demo code doesn't
 > >  > compile against the POSIX skin due to unresolved SIG_BLOCK:
 > >  > 
 > >  > #include <pthread.h>
 > >  > #include <signal.h>
 > >  > 
 > >  > int main()
 > >  > {
 > >  >         return SIG_BLOCK;
 > >  > }
 > >  > 
 > >  > Comment out the pthread include, and it will work again. Any ideas?
 > > 
 > > Fixed in revision 714
 > > 
 > 
 > Yep, thanks.
 > 
 > I found this while trying Thomas Gleixner's cyclic test over the POSIX
 > skin (http://www.tglx.de/projects/misc/cyclictest). After fixing a
 > rather ugly bug in his code (missing mlockall) I ran into a yet unknown
 > issue with the POSIX skin: the code just hangs when wrapped to Xenomai.
 > 
 > Compilation:
 > gcc -o cyclictest cyclictest.c <posix-cflags> <posix-ldflags>
 > 
 > Invocation:
 > cyclictest -n -p 99
 > 
 > Maybe its just real-time starvation (but the watchdog doesn't trigger,
 > and I do not see why it should starve), maybe its a crash (will try to
 > attach a serial console later). Anyway, it's an easy test case (and also
 > a nice tool), so you may want to have a look as well.

A second, better guess: the created thread is not a Xenomai realtime
thread, so never suspends (Xenomai calls return EPERM when not called
from a real-time thread) and hangs. Replacing sched_setscheduler with
pthread_setschedparam should solve this issue.

I would not be surprised if, with NPTL, sched_setscheduler had an effect
on the whole process, i.e. set the priority of all the threads in the
process.

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					    Gilles Chanteperdrix.