Fatal exceptions on context-switching for more than two isolated threads

[Sebastian Huber]

On 04/11/2020 19:38, Gedare Bloom wrote:

>>   Based on the above suggestions I tried to move the User_extensions_Iterator storage to the TCB by adding a new field to the structure, but that did not compile(userextimpl.h is not included with thread.h because of cyclic dependency).
>> This made me try out a naive hack, I defined a structure similar to the User_extensions_Iterator and then added the field to the TCB. The next problem that I faced was during the creation of the idle thread. Since an idle thread is created during system
>> initialization, the 'executing' pointer pointing the TCB is null, and hence referencing to the iterator placed in the TCB for the idle thread fails. This was resolved by separating the cases for an idle thread and other threads. After that I was able to successfully isolate more than two thread stacks.
>> Can you please suggest a more acceptable approach for resolving this issue?
>>
> At a high level the approach you took makes sense. You have moved the
> user extensions to the TCB, and then avoid accessing it in case the
> TCB is null (i.e., the initial context switch). I'd need to see the
> code to make any further critical analysis. But it sounds acceptable
> to me.
The executing thread pointer can be NULL and there is already a check 
for this in _User_extensions_Iterate(). In this case you can use a 
member in the _Per_CPU_Information[].

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