rtems_wake_after

[Jerry Needell]

On Friday, Jun 20, 2003, at 11:32 US/Eastern, Fabio Degiovanni - Eicas 
wrote:

> Dear Jerry Needell,
>                                thank you for your help. Some other 
> questions: I have sis intalled, where can I find documentation about 
> sis? When I use the target sim option in sparc-rtems-gdb do I use sis 
> or another simulator?
the documentation is part of the gdb source distribution. I will send 
you the README files on a separate message so they don't burden the 
list. I "think" that the same code is used in gdb as in sis, just sis 
has stand-alone wrapper. I have been digging through the code to verify 
this, but it may take some time to figure out how it all fits together. 
Mayby someone else can comment.
> Where can I find the limitation of sparc-rtems-gdb simulator? In the 
> tsim site it is clearly stated the limit of 232 instruction, but I 
> didn't find anything for my simulator. I think that you correctly 
> deduce that the same limit exists, but is there a document stating 
> clearly this limit?
I have not found this stated explicitly yet, but I'm still reading...

> Thank you very much again for you help
>
> Fabio Degiovanni
>
> Jerry Needell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Friday, Jun 20, 2003, at 10:34 US/Eastern, Fabio Degiovanni - 
>> Eicas wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Jarry Needell,
>>>                                I think you were right: it is a 
>>> problem of overflow. I tried with CONFIGURE_MICROSECONDS_PER_TICK 
>>> 1000 and rtems_task_wake_after(1000). The problems is at the 305th 
>>> iteration. I tried to put the directive rtems_clock_get( 
>>> RTEMS_CLOCK_GET_TICKS_SINCE_BOOT, &inter ); to see at what time (in 
>>> ticks this happens) and I found out at 305266 ticks.
>>
>>
>> I was just about to try that myself :-)
>>
>>> I don't understand what variables is subjected to overflow. I'm used 
>>> to Linux real-time: in that case there is a periodic interrupt timer 
>>> that is loaded to the value of MICROSECONDS_PER_TICK 1000, it counts 
>>> down till 0 then it gives an interrupt, the interrupt service 
>>> routine increment the value of ticks an reset the PIT to the 
>>> MICROSECONDS_PER_TICK value. If RTEMS follows nearly the same 
>>> procedure I don't see any point in which an overflow can occur. How 
>>> does RTEMS work? What the variable that is subject to overflow? Why?
>>> Thank you very much for your help
>>>
>> The problem is not in RTEMS, but in the simulator. On real hardware, 
>> it does not crash and it runs in "real time" :-) .
>>
>> - Jerry
>>
>>> Fabio Degiovanni
>>>
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