Heap usage of ping

[Matthew J Fletcher]

Hi,

It seems by default a 'ping' from the RTEMS shell requires about 130k, this
is from the malloc() for rtems_shell_globals_t.

That structure is mostly made up of the outpackhdr[] and packet[] arrays
which both allocate to IP_MAXPACKET, which defaults to 65535.

I attempted to reduce the size of rtems_shell_globals_t by reducing
IP_MAXPACKET to 16384 and then rebuilt rtems.

Unfortunately it seems that there is some other routine which presumes the
size of the packet arrays or the shell globals as i get stack corruption in
the shell.

RTEMS Shell on /dev/console. Use 'help' to list commands.
[/] # ping 192.168.10.121
.6T AyCeK !r!m !921 (192.168.10.121): 56BdLtO WyNe
 68t1a.1s1k  ccposnqt0rtoll12 block: 0x20410FE8
task ID: 0x0A010007
task name: 0x53484C4C
task name string: SHLL
task stack area (4096 Bytes): 0x20442298 .. 0x20443298
damaged pattern area (16 Bytes): 0x204422A0 .. 0x204422B0


I presume to debug i could call the stack check routine at various
locations until i narrow down to the problem area, or does anyone know the
code well enough to offer a hint to look into ?

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regards
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Matthew J Fletcher
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