Optimization issue in RISC-V BSP

[Denis Obrezkov]

2017-07-28 17:31 GMT+02:00 Denis Obrezkov <denisobrezkov at gmail.com>:

> 2017-07-28 17:05 GMT+02:00 Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org>:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Denis Obrezkov <denisobrezkov at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 2017-07-28 15:19 GMT+02:00 Sebastian Huber <
>>> sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>:
>>>
>>>> On 28/07/17 15:15, Denis Obrezkov wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2017-07-28 14:56 GMT+02:00 Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org <mailto:
>>>>> joel at rtems.org>>:
>>>>>
>>>>>     There is a debug option near the bottom of confdefs.h which you
>>>>>     can enable to generate a data structure filled in with various
>>>>>     values computed by confdefs. You can look at that in gdb without
>>>>>     loading it on the target.
>>>>>
>>>>>     It is probably worth it to look at that now and see what you spot.
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay, I'll try.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     And a random thought.. what's the interrupt stack size and how is
>>>>>     it allocated? What are the port specific related macros set to?
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't completely understand what is the interrupt stack. Because,
>>>>> when an interrupt occurs,
>>>>> I save all registers and move the stack pointer, handle interrupt,
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Now you handle the interrupt on the stack of the interrupted context
>>>> (usually a thread). So, you must take this overhead into account for every
>>>> thread. If you switch to an interrupt stack, then you only have to account
>>>> for one interrupt frame per thread. If you support nested interrupts, you
>>>> need even more space per thread without an interrupt stack.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Am I understand right that RTEMS has a wrapper for interrupt handlers
>>> that creates a dedicated 'interrupt handler' task?
>>> I think it is not, since we call ISR directly from assembler code, thus
>>> should we save registers in a dedicated interrupt stack
>>> by ourselves in the ISR?
>>>
>>
>> There can be interrupt server threads but that is a distinct topic.
>>
>> Interrupts have to execute on a stack. As Gedare said, you are currently
>> processing each
>> ISR on the stack of the thread that was interrupted. Most of the other
>> ports have a dedicated
>> interrupt stack and switch to it.
>>
>> There is a worst case stack usage for each thread and the interrupts.
>> Without a dedicated
>> interrupt stack, each task must account for its worst usage and the worst
>> case interrupt
>> when allocating its stack.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Also, I don't understand what do you mean by: " you only have to account
>>> for one interrupt frame per thread".
>>> And what is an 'interrupt frame'? I have found something in a relatively
>>> old guide:
>>> https://docs.rtems.org/releases/rtemsdocs-4.9.6/share/rtems/
>>> html/porting/porting00033.html
>>> but it doesn't make it clear.
>>>
>>
>> An interrupt frame is the set of data that must be saved for each
>> interrupt occurrence. The
>> "only have to save one" is because you can switch to a dedicated stack
>> where interrupts
>> are processed and possibly nested. Thus you have the usage for the
>> processing and
>> possible nested interrupts.
>>
>> But you need to figure out why the memory allocated changed. Optimization
>> level should be
>> independent of that.
>>
>>
>>> --
>>> Regards, Denis Obrezkov
>>>
>>
>>
> I can see that during task initialization I have a call:
>  _Thread_Initialize_information (information=information at entry=0x80000ad4
> <_RTEMS_tasks_Information>, the_api=the_api at entry=OBJECTS_CLASSIC_API,
> the_class=the_class at entry=1, maximum=124,
>     is_string=is_string at entry=false, maximum_name_length=maximum_
> name_length at entry=4)
>
> And maximum is 124, but I have a configuration parameter:
> #define CONFIGURE_MAXIMUM_TASKS             4
>
> It seems that other tasks are LIBBLOCK tasks.
>
> Also, this is my Configuration during run:
> (gdb) p Configuration.stack_space_size
> $1 = 2648
> (gdb) p Configuration.work_space_size
> $2 = 4216
> (gdb) p Configuration.interrupt_stack_size
> $3 = 512
> (gdb) p Configuration.idle_task_stack_size
> $4 = 512
>
> --
> Regards, Denis Obrezkov
>

I've just found out that without
optimization  Configuration_RTEMS_API.maximum_tasks = 5,
and with -Os,  Configuration_RTEMS_API.maximum_tasks=124.

-- 
Regards, Denis Obrezkov
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