User Extensions, TCB Extension area, and TCBs in general

[Wu, Mark H.]

Now that I've looked into it more, how do you keep from overwriting other extension sets in general? Specifically, I want to enable the stack bounds checking functionality. But that appears to use an extension set. How do I keep the bounds checking extensions as well as my own? Is that possible?

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Subject: User Extensions, TCB Extension area, and TCBs in general

I'm evaluating RTEMS for use on a project I'm working on, and have several questions. I'll probably use 4.11, but since the documentation is only available for 4.10, I'll ask regarding the documentation.

This question concerns user extensions.

In the C User's Guide, section 22.2.1, it talks about creating a static extension set and dynamic extension sets. The static set is loaded during configuration, as discussed in section 23.9. Since there is no rtems_extensions_create() call used during configuration, is there any way to get the ID of the static extension set? Specifically, if I have a static extension set that has a fatal error detection handler, and want to add a dynamic set that does something else, then how do I get the fatal pointer from the static set? Do I need to make it a global in the application and reference it directly? And do I have to do the same for all of the other function pointers? This doesn't seem very modular.

In section 22.2.2, it refers to a TCB Extension Area. It references an index into "an array of pointers in the TCB." How is this array created and accessed? There doesn't seem to be any description of how to add this array to the TCB. Or is the intent to use the task variables?

All of the signatures for the user extensions deal with rtems_tcb pointers. But there appears to be no way to get the TCB pointer for a task directly? I want to do some simple performance monitoring of one or two tasks... the easiest way would be to just see if the TCB pointers match (to see if it was the task I was interested in). Is the right way to check the tcb->Object.id? There seems to be no official documentation on the structure of the TCB... is this intentional? It seems to make it harder to do something like this.


Thanks.

Mark.