Philippe Gerum wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 19:50 +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>>> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Philippe,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> just noticed: The __ipipe_check_percpu_access of __ipipe_get_cpu_var,
>>>>>> added in 2.6.29, makes ipipe_test_pipeline_from unusable for debugging
>>>>>> purposes. It now triggers a false positive warning if the caller did not
>>>>>> disabled interrupts or stalled its pipeline. One such user under Xenomai
>>>>>> is rthal_local_irq_disabled, and that is used to check RTDM driver
>>>>>> handlers /wrt leaking IRQ masks.
>>>>> It does not look like a false positive. If the task issuing the call to
>>>>> rthal_local_irq_disabled function was migrated at the wrong time, it
>>>>> could check the stall flag on the wrong cpu.
>>>> Unless you want to test the migration logic itself, a plain task in
>>>> whatever domain should never see a CPU-depend rthal_local_irq_disabled -
>>>> migration should never alter the context in this respect.
>>>>
> 
> A plain task over the root domain which is subject to a migration may
> end up testing the stall bit on the wrong (dest) CPU, which may execute
> a different domain than the one running on the source CPU. As soon as

Yeah, makes sense now (with source and dest swapped, though).

> the domain is not a context invariant, you do have a serious issue
> coming up. So this does matter a lot, as the bug fixed some time ago in
> ipipe_check_context() showed.
> 
>>>>> So, it looks like
>>>>> rthal_local_irq_disabled should be fixed to turn off irqs during the 
>>>>> check.
>>>>>
>>>> Would work, but would also be more heavy-weighted then needed.
>>> If it is debug stuff, does the heavy-weight matter that much?
>>>
>> Actually, I'm no longer sure that a preemption check for
>> ipipe_stall_pipeline_from makes sense at all. Am I missing some case?
>>
> 
> Same as above. Albeit there may not be forced CPU migration over the
> Xenomai domain, this is perfectly possible on the root one.

OK, will fix the checks in RTDM then.

Jan

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