Philippe Gerum wrote:
> Thomas Necker wrote:
>> A few weeks ago I was asking about a global variable available that just
>> counts the system ticks (for pSOS skin) and that could be read by the
>> application. Philippe suggested xntbase_get_jiffies for that purpose.
>> Now it seems to me that this function can only be called in kernel
>> space. Is that correct? And if so, is there a way to get this
>> information in user space? Basically I want to get rid of kernel code in
>> this context completely if possible.
>>
>
> The pSOS skin supports tm_get() which converts the current count of
> jiffies to calendar date and time, but this may not be handy for your
> calculations.
>
> The other option would be to extend this skin with a Xenomai-specific
> syscall returning this value, in a similar way than tm_getm(), which
> returns the TSC converted to nanoseconds.
>
Like the attached patch does.
--
Philippe.
Index: include/psos+/syscall.h
===================================================================
--- include/psos+/syscall.h (revision 3133)
+++ include/psos+/syscall.h (working copy)
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@
/* Xenomai extension: send a Linux signal after a specified time */
#define __psos_tm_signal 44
#define __psos_as_send 45
+/* Xenomai extension: get raw count of jiffies */
+#define __psos_tm_getc 46
#ifdef __KERNEL__
Index: include/psos+/psos.h
===================================================================
--- include/psos+/psos.h (revision 3133)
+++ include/psos+/psos.h (working copy)
@@ -419,6 +419,8 @@
int signo,
u_long *tmid_r);
+u_long tm_getc(unsigned long long *ticks_r); /* Xenomai extension. */
+
#ifdef __cplusplus
};
#endif /* __cplusplus */
Index: src/skins/psos+/tm.c
===================================================================
--- src/skins/psos+/tm.c (revision 3133)
+++ src/skins/psos+/tm.c (working copy)
@@ -83,3 +83,8 @@
{
return XENOMAI_SKINCALL4(__psos_muxid, __psos_tm_signal, value, interval, signo, tmid_r);
}
+
+u_long tm_getc(unsigned long long *ticks_r) /* Xenomai extension. */
+{
+ return XENOMAI_SKINCALL1(__psos_muxid, __psos_tm_getc, ticks_r);
+}
Index: ksrc/skins/psos+/syscall.c
===================================================================
--- ksrc/skins/psos+/syscall.c (revision 3133)
+++ ksrc/skins/psos+/syscall.c (working copy)
@@ -1071,6 +1071,26 @@
}
/*
+ * u_long tm_getc(u_long_long *ticks_r)
+ */
+
+static int __tm_getc(struct task_struct *curr, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ xnticks_t ticks;
+
+ if (!__xn_access_ok
+ (curr, VERIFY_WRITE, __xn_reg_arg1(regs), sizeof(ticks)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ ticks = xntbase_get_jiffies(&psos_tbase);
+
+ __xn_copy_to_user(curr, (void __user *)__xn_reg_arg1(regs), &ticks,
+ sizeof(ticks));
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/*
* u_long tm_signal(u_long value, u_long interval, int signo, u_long *tmid_r)
*/
@@ -1503,6 +1523,7 @@
[__psos_tm_getm] = {&__tm_getm, __xn_exec_any},
[__psos_tm_signal] = {&__tm_signal, __xn_exec_primary},
[__psos_as_send] = {&__as_send, __xn_exec_conforming},
+ [__psos_tm_getc] = {&__tm_getc, __xn_exec_any},
};
extern xntbase_t *psos_tbase;
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