Reset a partition and region

[Rolf Schroedter]

During the RTEMS school in Munich (thanks to Joel for his wunderful
presentation) we have discussed the following (real) application:

TASK-A allocates buffers/segments from a partition/region, fills the
memory with data and send messages (address,size) to a message queue.
TASK-B reads the messages queue and returns buffers/segments to the
partition/region.

For an application reset all data should be cleared.
The message queue can be cleared with message_queue_flush(),
but unfortunately the partition/region cannot be cleared so easily.
They even cannot be deleted and recreated, as long there are
buffers/segments allocated.

All that can be done now is to manually read out the message queue
and return all buffers/segments.
It would really be a big simplification to have the possibility
to reset (clear) partitions and regions:

	rtems_region_reset( rtems_id id );
	rtems_partition_reset( rtems_id id );

Rolf.

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Rolf Schroedter
German Aerospace Center
Institute of Planetary Research