Re: [Xenomai-help] rt_queue_write strange behaviour ++

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

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Roderik.Wildenburg@domain.hid wrote:
> Sorry, but in my last mail (see below) I had forgotten to tell you my 
> Xenomai-Version and architecture.
> I still use Xenomai 2.3.2 on PPC.
> 
> In the meantime I had a deeper look into the Xenomai source code 
> and I would say, the case we observed (msg->refcount == 0 ; see below)
> isn´t possible with rt_queue_write, as this function implicitly allocate 
> its messagebuffer and rt_queue_alloc initilaizes refcount to 1.
> Immediatelly after this rt_queue_send is called, where the 
> plausibility test if( msg->refcount == 0) is done and fails. 
> So, I can´t see a gap where refcount falls back to 0.

Does the attached patch trigger any message when your app fails?

-- 
Philippe.

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Index: ksrc/nucleus/heap.c
===================================================================
--- ksrc/nucleus/heap.c	(revision 3224)
+++ ksrc/nucleus/heap.c	(working copy)
@@ -911,8 +911,10 @@
 			break;
 	}
 
-	if (!holder)
+	if (!holder) {
+		printk(KERN_DEBUG "XNHEAP: no extent found: block=%p\n", block);
 		goto bad_block;
+	}
 
 	/* Compute the heading page number in the page map. */
 	pagenum = ((caddr_t) block - extent->membase) >> heap->pageshift;
@@ -922,9 +924,11 @@
 	ptype = extent->pagemap[pagenum].type;
 
 	if (ptype == XNHEAP_PFREE ||	/* Unallocated page? */
-	    ptype == XNHEAP_PCONT)	/* Not a range heading page? */
+	    ptype == XNHEAP_PCONT) {	/* Not a range heading page? */
+		printk(KERN_DEBUG "XNHEAP: bad page type: 0x%x\n", ptype);
   bad_block: 
 		err = -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	xnlock_put_irqrestore(&heap->lock, s);