Re: [Xenomai-help] memset of heap crashes Xenomai-Task

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>]

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Roderik_Wildenburg@domain.hid wrote:
> Xenomai Version : 2.2-rc2
> Skin : native
> Kernel : 2.4.25
> Arch.: PPC
> 
> I try to allocate as much memory as possible with the functions :
> rt_heap_create and
> rt_heap_alloc.
> (see also "Xenomai heap services" in this mailing list; see source
> attached)
> 
> When I try to use the allocated memory with memset, the Xenomai-task
> crashes with a "Segmentation fault".
> 
> Is memset allowed to be used with Xenomai heaps ?
> If so, could somebody try to reproduce this (preferable with a PPC), to
> see whether it is a common problem or just one of my configuration .
> I have the feeling it is timing dependend, as it does not crash every
> time. So try to start it several times, please.
> 

Nice test case with a tendency to jump out of every half-opened window
around. :)

First of all, I'm not sure if that 8K of stack is enough on PPC with
2.4, on x86 over 2.6 it isn't. The native skin picks PTHREAD_STACK_MIN*4
for you by default. Is this too much? Unless dealing with dozens of
*simple* threads, reducing this makes no sense to me.

Then there was this bug:

@@ -168,13 +169,13 @@
 void root_thread_exit(void)
 {
    int i;
-   RT_HEAP_INFO *hpinfo;
+   RT_HEAP_INFO hpinfo;

    printf("UDP->root_thread_exit\n");

    for(i=0;i<MAXHEAPBLOCKS;i++)
    {
-      if( !rt_heap_inquire(&bigheap[i],hpinfo) )
+      if( !rt_heap_inquire(&bigheap[i],&hpinfo) )
          rt_heap_delete(&bigheap[i]);
    }

Now I get some other strange effects (e.g. kernel oopses after OOM
oopses) that need a closer look under qemu later.

Jan


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