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Re: [SMP]serious bug in synchronisation primitives
got a small doubt while looking at compat-posix-tm_basic test
run_thread_tests (
.....
create test threads with test3 as entry
cyg_thread_delay(1);
wait_for_tick();
pthread_cancel these test threads
.....
)
run_thread_tests runs with priority 30 and test3 (threads with entry point as
test3) created with priority 10 (higher number => higher posix priority). so
test3 threads can run only till run_thread_tests is delayed (for 1 tick here).
are all the created ntest_threads no. of threads expected to have run before
run_thread_tests becomes ready again??
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if some minor slips got introduced in ecos during smp transition, i trust ecos
maintainers to fix them in time, as and when they will become aware of these. so
far most of the problem sources have ended up in tests.
as the race conditions trend is demanding, wouldn't it be better to have fresh
tests written for SMP configuration and/or scruitinise all the existing tests
currently marked to run fine under SMP and get only functioning-fine tests built
under SMP configuration. if in doubt about some test, don't push it under set of
tests built for SMP, till doubt is resolved.
as the current experience goes, compat-posix test set is not well behaving under
SMP configuration. There could be more faultering tests elsewhere or currently
well behaving ones also misbehave when certain different configuration is chosen
for eCos kernel.
locally we have mainly tried the default configuration and tests involving the
following, often with 4 processor configuration.
compat(posix), fs(ram,rom), hal(common), io(fileio,wallclock), kernel,
language-c(libc,libm), services(memalloc), net(bsd_tcpip,common)
sandeep
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