Task Creation Issue

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com
Thu Oct 6 16:06:44 UTC 2011


On 10/06/2011 10:53 AM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>
> Is it possible that you underallocated something other than tasks? All 
> those configure commands reserve some space in a shared workspace, and 
> if for example you have timers or more than 21 semaphores then the 
> workspace could be too small.
>
> Another possibility is a bug in confdefs.h where the workspace size is 
> calculated. We would need more info to diagnose further, including how 
> you ./configure RTEMS and some idea of the resources your code uses.
>
This is sadly always a possibility.  All it takes is missing one allocation
on task create.

If you can put together a VERY simple test case with nothing but tasks
that does it, we can file a PR and I can look into it.

--joel
> On Oct 6, 2011 11:04 AM, "Gabriel Raineri" <graineri at invap.com.ar 
> <mailto:graineri at invap.com.ar>> wrote:
> > Hi everybody!
> >
> > I'm having an issue when creating tasks. The thing is that I'm 
> receiving
> > RTEMS_UNSATISFIED (not enough memory for stack/FP context) after having
> > created a bunch of them.
> >
> > Let's dig into the details...
> >
> > #define CONFIGURE_MAXIMUM_TASKS 25
> > #define CONFIGURE_MAXIMUM_SEMAPHORES 21
> > #define CONFIGURE_MAXIMUM_MESSAGE_QUEUES 14
> > #define CONFIGURE_MAXIMUM_PARTITIONS 6
> > #define CONFIGURE_MAXIMUM_TIMERS 0
> > #define CONFIGURE_MAXIMUM_BARRIERS 1
> >
> > * Tasks are being created after all other RTEMS objects (Semaphores,
> > Queues, etc.).
> > * After creating the task #22 and when attempting to create task #23 I
> > get the aforementioned error code.
> > * All tasks are created with a stack size of 
> RTEMS_MINIMUM_STACK_SIZE bytes.
> >
> > The weird thing is that if I define CONFIGURE_EXTRA_TASK_STACKS to be
> > RTEMS_MINIMUM_STACK_SIZE * 5 (20480 bytes) the tasks are created 
> without
> > any problem.
> >
> > I think I shouldn't need to define CONFIGURE_EXTRA_TASK_STACKS. Am I 
> right?
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gabriel


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