RTEMS 5.1 pc686 BSP malloc_info problem?

[Chris Johns]

On 16/10/20 5:22 am, Alan Cudmore wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 11:19 AM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 6:35 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020, 7:15 AM Alan Cudmore <alan.cudmore at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Thanks for all of the help, and thanks for the patch Chris! I was
>>>> hoping to submit a patch this weekend, so you just gave me back some
>>>> time :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Glad you found this!
>>>
>>> The RFS was new in 4.10 as I recall. You guys have missions using this. Do you need to locally fix this?
> 
> We have one active mission that uses it. I will be worth trying to
> determine what word of memory is affected before trying to fix it,
> since it has been operating normally for 5.5 years with the issue.
> 

The number of bits needs to align to a value that fits the whole 32 bit mask so
the last is used to trigger the bug.

Chris