Executive shutdown

[brian]

Joel,

Thank you for your reply,

As part of my studies I am looking at the reuse of an application that was
crafted directly to a processor and looking at how it could be moved to a
more modern platform. Because of the close coupling possible it usd a 2ms
interrupt to drive it.

I have already found that a different processor/OS combintaion couldnot
cope, the singals generated from the interrupt were being missed by the
application because it could not keep up.

Is there any way to put a trace in to check for stack overflow? and how easy
is it to increase the stack ?

Thank You

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp.com>" <joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com>
To: "Stevens Brian" <BPSTEVENS at qinetiq.com>
Cc: "'Angelo Fraietta'" <afraiett at bigpond.net.au>; <rtems-users at rtems.com>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: Executive shutdown


> Stevens Brian wrote:
> > I have added a counter and it indicates that the task receives approx
280
> > signals before failing.
>
> Is this a clean exit/shutdown, fatal error, or just a random fault?
>
> FWIW the POSIX signals were designed to be safe to be sent from
> interrupts but their complexity has always made me suspicious of
> doing so.  At your signal rate, you could be overflowing a task
> stack.  Each signal is going to push deeper and deeper onto the
> interrupted thread's stack.
>
> --joel
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Angelo Fraietta [mailto:afraiett at bigpond.net.au]
> > Sent: 02 July 2004 09:39
> > To: Stevens Brian
> > Cc: 'rtems-users at rtems.com'
> > Subject: Re: Executive shutdown
> >
> >
> >
> > Stevens Brian wrote:
> >
> >
> >>RTEMS version 4.6
> >>Target PC386
> >>
> >>I have written a device driver to use the rtc to generate timer
interrupts
> >>independent of the clock used to drive rtems. I have set  the additional
> >>timer to produce interupts at 122micro second intervals, these are then
> >>counted and when the required time interval has elapsed a POSIX signal
is
> >>sent to a thread.
> >>
> >>If I set the signal to be sent every  2 miliseconds the system
eventually
> >>crashes with an executive shutdown. However, if set to 20ms it works
fine.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > After how long does it crash? Do you get a message saying that it shust
down
> >
>
>
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