Re: [Xenomai-help] T_WARNSW ignored?

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

Kolja Waschk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to detect some remaining unwanted mode switches in an
> application using the native Xenomai app. In one task (that is meant to
> stay in RT domain all the time) I set the T_WARNSW bit and run the
> program via gdb, but - although /proc/xenomai/stat shows some 1000 MSW
> per second for that task - no SIGXCPU ever occurs. Only after I interrupt
> it in the terminal where gdbserver was started, the gdb client shows
> SIGINT, and after "cont", SIGXPCU.
> 
> I also tried the examples/native/sigxcpu.c with the same compiler flags.
> There, SIGXCPU occurs and is reported by GDB immediately. What may cause
> this, did I miss something?
> 
> It's on Blackfin, uclinux-dist 2009R1-RC2, Xenomai 2.4.7, Kernel 2.6.28.10 with
> adeos-ipipe-2.6.28.10-blackfin.git-1.10-00.patch.
> 
> This is how it looks when the program is interrupted after some time:
> 
> Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
> [Switching to Thread 270]
> 0x00710042 in rt_sem_p (sem=0xf69028, timeout=81067177008952732) at
> ../../../../xenomai-2.4.7/src/skins/native/sem.c:43
> 43		return XENOMAI_SKINCALL2(__native_muxid, __native_sem_p,
> sem, &timeout);
> Current language:  auto; currently c
> (gdb) cont
> Continuing.
> 
> Program received signal SIGXCPU, CPU time limit exceeded.
> [Switching to Thread 273]
> 0x0070fc20 in rt_dev_ioctl (fd=0, request=4) at
> ../../../../xenomai-2.4.7/src/skins/rtdm/core.c:60
> 60		return XENOMAI_SKINCALL3(__rtdm_muxid,
> (gdb)

I do not know if that may be your issue, but gdb cause mode switches,
and you are not notified for these ones. So, the only relevant test is
to run your application outside gdb and see if the MSW increments.

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                                          Gilles