timer server fire when with time adjust

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com
Mon Jun 8 14:37:14 UTC 2009


Could be a bug.  Can you submit a small self-contained
test case?

--joel

Sergio Faustino wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been looking at RTEMS for some time and now I have a doubt regarding
> the time management in RTEMS.
>
> The user manual states that:
>
> "The rtems_clock_set directive allows a task or an ISR to set the date and
> time maintained by RTEMS. If setting the date and time causes any
> outstanding timers to pass their deadline, then the expired timers will be
> fired during the invocation of the rtems_clock_set directive."
>
> From my understanding, this is also applicable to timers fired by the timer
> server.
>
> However, when I tested this, this does not appear to be working (on RTEMS 4.8.0).
>
> The test basically consists of creating and firing 3 timers with the
> rtems_timer_server_wake_when routine. When a rtems_clock_set is done (to a
> forward time) the timers should fire immediatly but, in reality, they fire later on.
>
> The same test with rtems_timer_fire_when (without the timer server) works
> properly.
>
> I guess this could be an RTEMS bug...
>
> Best Regards,
> Sergio Faustino
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