Re: [Xenomai-help] Unexpected switch to secondary mode

[Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@domain.hid>]

Johan Borkhuis wrote:
> Philippe Gerum wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 11:47 +0200, Johan Borkhuis wrote:
>>   
>>> I am experiencing an unexpected switch to secondary mode in a 
>>> rt_timer_tsc2ns call from userspace.
>>>
>>> The following code give a switch:
>>>     SRTIME timeStamp;
>>>     timeStamp = rt_timer_tsc2ns(rt_timer_tsc());
>>>     while((rt_timer_tsc2ns(rt_timer_tsc()) - timeStamp) < (usecs*1000)) {}
>>>
>>> while the following code does not:
>>>     RTIME timeStamp;
>>>     timeStamp = rt_timer_tsc();
>>>     while((rt_timer_tsc() - timeStamp) < (usecs*1000)) {}
>>>
>>> (I know that the second example causes a longer timeout, but this was to 
>>> show the testcase).
>>>
>>> When splitting up the 2nd line in the first example I see that the 
>>> rt_timer_tsc() call does not cause a switch, but the rt_timer_tsc2ns 
>>> does. What am I doing wrong here?
>>>
>>> I am using Xenomai-2.3.2.
>>>
>>>     
>> - Which CPU architecture, and which Adeos patch release are you using?
>>   
> Processor: ppc 85xx, patch 1.5-03, Xenomai 2.3.2
> 
>> - How do you notice the switches, SIGXCPU or /proc/xenomai/stat?
>>   
> SIGXCPU

And what does /proc/xenomai/faults show right before and after the SIGXCPU?

Wolfgang.