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problem thread creation
- From: Aravind B <arvindb at cranessoftware dot com>
- To: ecos <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 15 Sep 2004 17:42:42 +0530
- Subject: [ECOS] problem thread creation
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 04:39, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 03:26:12PM +0530, Aravind B wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Thanks for ur kind reply
> > > After debugging i found that problem is in following code fragment
in
> > > file thread.cxx:
> > >
> > > Cyg_Thread::add_to_list( void )
> > > - 127 {
> > > 128 // Add thread to housekeeping list
> > > 129 Cyg_Scheduler::lock();
> > > 130
> > > - 131 if( thread_list == 0 )
> > > 132 list_next = this;
> > > 133 else {prev != thread_list
> > > 134 Cyg_Thread *prev = thread_list;
> > > - 135 do {
> > > - 136 if ( this == prev )
> > > 137 break; // found it already!
> > > - 138 prev = prev->list_next;
> > > - 139 } while ( prev != thread_list );
> > > - 140 if ( this != prev ) {
> > > 141 // insert it in the list:
> > > - 142 list_next = thread_list->list_next;
> > > - 143 thread_list->list_next = this;
> > > 144 }
> > > 145 }
> > >
> > > the control is in the while loop forever as prev == thread_list (
line
> > > 139 )ie prev has become NULL.
> >
> > >Sounds like your stack is too small and you are overwriting the
thread
> > >structures.
> > > Andrew
> > But my stack size is 4096 bytes.
>
> How do you know that is big enough?
>Also, how are your stacks declared? Looking at what you sent
>yesterday,you created one thread with its stack stack[0] and the other
>threadwith its stack stack[1]. This looks possibly wrong to me.
>Did you run the code with asserts enabled? (CYGPKG_INFRA_DEBUG on)
>--
>Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
>MLB Associates
thanks for the solution.
this has solved my problem. (The problem was with the stack
declaration)
regards
Aravind B
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