Hello Philippe,

thanks for your response.

> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 17:17 +0100, Jochen Behnke wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > after hours of searching, I have finally found the problem. 
> > It was a bug in my "SimpleRPC" library. The thread function, responsible 
> > for the "lockup", mainly constists of an endless loop ( while(pObj->nRun) ) 
> > that polls a request queue. This was not a problem as long as this thread 
> > was a standard pthread. Turning this thread into a real-time task by adding 
> > a call to rt_task_shadow at the beginning of the thread function (before 
> > the while loop) resulted in a frozen linux system.
> > 
> > I used to work with the following system
> > Gentoo Linux
> > Linux Kernel 2.6.17 (IPIPE 1.4)
> > Xenomai 2.2.3
> > 
> > Now that I know, that upgrading to Xenomai 2.3.0 is not a problem, I plan 
> > to upgrade to the 2.3.x branch.
> > 
> 
> You may detect such kind of issues switching on the
> CONFIG_XENO_OPT_WATCHDOG option in the kernel configuration. Normally,
> this would pull the brake after more than 4 seconds of uninterrupted
> real-time activity in primary mode (i.e. without yielding control to the
> regular Linux activities).

That's great. I will check this out.

BTW, is there an easy way, other than reboot,  to release xenomai ressources 
(mutexes,...) that have not been freed after an application crash ? 

Thanks in advance.

Jochen


> 
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Jochen
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hello Gilles,
> > > 
> > > > Jochen Behnke wrote:
> > > > > Hello Gilles,
> > > > > 
> > > > > thanks for your response. 
> > > > > At the moment I try to cut down my application to the minimum.
> > > > > I also will install the latest version of the xenomai 2.2.x branch 
> > > > > (2.2.5) and check whether I can reproduce the fault.  As I noticed 
> > > > > that some functions have been changed (rt_mutex_lock/unlock no longer 
> > > > > exist in Xenomai 2.3.x, they obviously have been renamed for some 
> > > > > reason) I would rather stick to the 2.2.x branch. Is that reasonable 
> > > > > in your opinion ?
> > > > > Will the 2.2.x branch be maintained in the future ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks again.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Jochen
> > > > 
> > > > Please do not forget to CC the list.
> > > I'm sorry. I just used the wrong reply button.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > rt_mutex_lock/rt_mutex_unlock were renamed
> > > > rt_mutex_acquire/rt_mutex_release to avoid a conflict, as documented in
> > > > API.CHANGES
> > > I will have a look at this.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Please try with Xenomai 2.3.0, or better with trunk. The aim of this
> > > > check is for us to avoid chasing bugs that were already solved. For
> > > > example if you are using fork() in your application, only I-pipe patches
> > > > in the trunk will solve your problem.
> > > At the moment I don't use fork() but I can try using 2.3.x.
> > > I hope that I don't have to change too much code on my side.
> > > 
> > > As soon as I have results, I'll post them here.
> > > 
> > > Jochen
> > > 
> > > 
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> Philippe.

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