RTEMS 5.1 pc686 BSP malloc_info problem?

[Joel Sherrill]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 10:34 AM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:

> This is an SMP related bug?  Can you send the rtems configure command,
> and the qemu run command?
>
> It might also help to know the number of tasks and their priorities.
> The CONFIGURE* macros might also help.
>
> My first guess is that the lock primitive is somehow broken in the
> pc686, maybe it gets caught in a buggy CAS/TAS loop? It would help if
> you can narrow down the task spinning to a particular section of code
> and send the disassembly (or file/line if it is in RTEMS)
>

Hmmm.. When did you build your i386 tools? git says 9/19 for the last change
but it was very much likely a few days after that when I pushed it.

--joel

>
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 2:06 PM Alan Cudmore <alan.cudmore at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have a problem in RTEMS 5.1 where the pc686 running on QEMU seems to
> > block or spin when trying to acquire a lock for the malloc_info call.
> > The CPU utilization goes up to 100 (on the QEMU host) leading me to
> > think the calling task is spinning waiting on the lock. Tasks with
> > lower priority than the calling task stop running as well. I also get
> > this problem when running the "malloc info" shell command.
> > I don't see this problem with the leon3 BSP built from the same source
> > tree and executed on QEMU.
> >
> > Is there an SMP related initialization or perhaps QEMU option I might
> > be missing? I can run the same code without problems on the RTEMS 4.11
> > release (same QEMU binary and QEMU options)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alan
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