On 01/09/2012 09:50 PM, Makarand Pradhan wrote:
Hi,
I am running kernel 3.0.0, xenomai: 2.6, powerpc 8360.
I am noticing an issue while using the auto relax feature related to
mutexes. I am using nested mutexes. The code is attached to this email.
The problem is that I am not relaxing after a RT thread grabs and
releases a mutex. On further investigation, it was noted that the rescnt
is not going down to 0.
From your code, task1 would auto-relax only if started with priority 0,
which is what I get here:
-bash-3.2# ./relax 0 1
Spawning: tasks
bP: 0, cp: 0, mode: 0
Acquire complete
Release complete
bP: 0, cp: 0, mode: 0
Acquire complete
Release complete
bP: 0, cp: 0, mode: 0
Acquire complete
Release complete
...
Conversely, I get the right behavior if setting a non-zero priority to
task1:
-bash-3.2# ./relax 1 0
Spawning: tasks
bP: 1, cp: 1, mode: 1
Acquire complete
Release complete
bP: 1, cp: 1, mode: 1
Acquire complete
Release complete
bP: 1, cp: 1, mode: 1
Acquire complete
...
In any case, the priority of task2 should have no impact on the result.
I'm running current 2.6 HEAD commit (168da46de), kernel 3.1.5/powerpc32
(52xx), pipeline 2.13-06.
Which priority arguments are you passing to your test program?
Another observation is that I do not hit
rt_mutex_release in the kernel in the problem scenario, I believe when
the thread undergoes a priority inversion.This may be a problem as the
rescnt would not get decremented. Not sure how the mutex is releasing
wiithout hitting rt_mutex_relase or am I missing anything?
These are fast mutexes, the thread does not have to jump to kernel space
unless the released mutex was actually contented.
If I have both the tasks running at priority 0, I stay in the secondary
domain, rt_mutex_release is invoked as expected, the rescnt goes down to
0 when all the mutexes are released.
Has anyone faced this problem?
I'm unsure there is any yet. Auto-relax applies to non -rt Xenomai
threads only (i.e. prio == 0).
Rgds,
Makarand
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