Workspace Initialization Faliure Bug
Joel Sherrill
joel at rtems.org
Fri Oct 1 17:17:20 UTC 2021
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021, 12:10 PM Sebastian Huber <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
> On 01/10/2021 16:27, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021, 8:42 AM Sebastian Huber
> > <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
> > <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
> >
> > On 01/10/2021 00:38, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > > I think in this configuration, the workspace is essentially
> unneeded
> > > but has to be able to be initialized. It shows that the static
> > > allocation work has succeeded in trimming the workspace at least.
> But
> > > now we have to account for an empty one. :)
> >
> > Did you get this error with an unmodified master branch?
> >
> >
> > Not yet. I am updating to 5 first since the last released version was
> from a
> > pre-branching spot and the decision was made to move to the release
> > branch.
> >
> > I am hoping to get it updated to where we can more easily track the
> > master but there are a few things ahead of that.
>
> I would update to the master. We should be close to an RTEMS 6 release.
> Our pre-qualification activity is nearly done.
>
That's not really a schedule option for this next drop.
It is needed long term.
>
> >
> >
> > Why is the workspace initialized? I tried to arrange everything so
> that
> > the workspace doesn't get initialized if it is not needed. What
> pulled
> > in the workspace initialization?
> >
> >
> > Looking at the map from ticker, it looks like it comes from
> > malloc_initialize.c
> >
> > ./../../cpukit/librtemscpu.a(wkspace.o)
> >
> > ./../../cpukit/librtemscpu.a(malloc_initialize.o) (_Workspace_Area)
> > ./../../cpukit/librtemscpu.a(wkspaceisunifieddefault.o)
> >
> > ./../../cpukit/librtemscpu.a(malloc_initialize.o) (_Workspace_Is_unified)
> >
> > And malloc_initialize.c looks different in 5 versus master.
> >
> > I don't want to get into pulling back a LOT of code. If there is a small
> > patch
> > set that can be backported, I'm ok with that. But a simple fix to let it
> > have a
> > minimum workspace is safe and simple on 5.
> >
> > But this can really occur on 5 so we need at least a fix there.
>
> Back porting things in the workspace and confdefs.h area will be difficult.
>
Then maybe my one line addition is the right work around for 5.
I will make a ticket for 5 and propose my one line addition. Anything else
seems to complicated and risky.
For 6, I'll see if this happens when I test the idle stack allocator.
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