Re: [Xenomai] Mixing Posix RT APIs and vxWorks APIs

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

On 04/25/2016 12:03 PM, Alex Plits wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Philippe Gerum [mailto:rpm@xenomai.org]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2016 8:56 PM
>> To: Alex Plits; Gilles Chanteperdrix
>> Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org
>> Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Mixing Posix RT APIs and vxWorks APIs
>>
>> On 04/07/2016 07:56 AM, Alex Plits wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Gilles Chanteperdrix [mailto:gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 10:03 AM
>>>> To: Alex Plits
>>>> Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Mixing Posix RT APIs and vxWorks APIs
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 01:42:11PM +0000, Alex Plits wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> We are currently porting some of our vxWorks  xenomai (copperplate)
>>>>> APIs we use in our application to Posix (cobalt I guess).
>>>>
>>>> Well, if you do not know whether you are using Cobalt or Mercury, we
>>>> can not know it for you...
>>> [Alex Plits]
>>> Cobalt :)
>>>>
>>>>> We have started with the VxWorks "tasks" but it seems that we're
>>>>> getting strange behavior on The remaining VxWorks APIs when used
>>>>> from
>>>> the POSIX generated tasks (threads is the right word in posix) e.g.
>>>> MsqQRecv function gets segfault but when it is used From a VxWorks
>>>> generated task it works fine.
>>>>> I understand from the comments in code it should work but I was
>>>> wondering if there are known issues.
>>>>>
>>>>> We are using currently xenomai 3 rc-6 (I saw there were fixes in
>>>>> xenomai
>>>> 3.0.2).
>>>>
>>>> Could you send a self-contained, simplest possible test case which
>>>> causes the problem for you, that we can test on the latest Xenomai
>>>> release to see if the problem has not been already fixed?
>>>>
>>> [Alex Plits]
>>> Attached code that is ripped from xenomai examples and initiates 2
>> threads using posix api then uses VxWorks MsgQ to communicate.
>>> Please advise if this code works as expected -  it seems that when we use
>> WAIT_FOREVER flag we have an issue.
>>>
>>> Sorry in advance for the #ifdef's and comments in code -
>>
>> For the record, 3.0-rc6 won't work properly with --enable-pshared setups.
>> For sane shared processing involving multiple copperplate-based APIs (such
>> as VxWorks), you do need 3.0.2.
> [Alex Plits] 
> We have configured --enable-pshared on xenomai 3.0.2 and now compiling empty application (just empty main routine) using non posix skin e.g. vxworks or even alchemy causes the 
> "Bus error" in runtime(see below). Removing --enable-pshared bootstrap completes successfully.
> 
> # ./posixvx --trace=1
> --  xenomai_init() running
> --  cobalt->init()
> --  connected to Cobalt
> --  memory locked
> --  memory heaps mapped
> --  boilerplate->init()
> --  copperplate->init()
> Bus error

gdb backtrace?


-- 
Philippe.