On 21/10/15 15:08, Isaac Gutekunst wrote:


On 10/21/2015 09:00 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:


On 21/10/15 14:56, Isaac Gutekunst wrote:
On 10/21/2015 08:24 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:


On 21/10/15 14:13, Isaac Gutekunst wrote:
Thanks for the reply.

On 10/21/2015 01:50 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:


On 20/10/15 16:02, Isaac Gutekunst wrote:
[...]


As far as I can tell this would only occur if the caller of pthread_mutex_lock was in a
"bad"
state. I don't believe it is in an interrupt context, and don't know what other bad states
could exist.

We have

#define _CORE_mutex_Check_dispatch_for_seize(_wait) \
   (!_Thread_Dispatch_is_enabled() \
     && (_wait) \
     && (_System_state_Get() >= SYSTEM_STATE_UP))

What is the thread dispatch disable level and the system state at this point?

In case the thread dispatch disable level is not zero, then something is probably broken
in the
operating system code which is difficult to find. Could be a general memory corruption
problem
too. Which RTEMS version do you use?


The thread dispatch disable level is usually -1 or -2.
(0xFFFFFFFE or 0xFFFFFFD).

A negative value is very bad, but easy to detect via manual instrumentation (only an hand full of spots touch this variable) or hardware breakpoints/watchpoints. Looks the rest of
_Per_CPU_Information all right?

It looks like it's only the thread_dispatch_disable_level that's broken.

We'll go and grep for all places for all the places it's touched, and look for something.

The problem with watchpoints is they fire exceptionally often, and putting in a conditional
watchpoint slows the code to a crawl, but that may be worth it.

Here are some printouts of the relevant structs right after a crash:

$4 = {
  cpu_per_cpu = {<No data fields>},
  isr_nest_level = 0,
  thread_dispatch_disable_level = 4294967295,
  executing = 0xc01585c8,
  heir = 0xc0154038,
  dispatch_necessary = true,
  time_of_last_context_switch = {
    sec = 2992,
    frac = 10737447432380511034
  },
  Stats = {<No data fields>}
}

No, this doesn't look good. According to the stack trace you are in thread context. However, we have executing != heir and dispatch_necessary == true. This is a broken state itself. I guess, something is wrong with the interrupt level so that a context switch is blocked. On ARMv7-M
this is done via the system call exception.

This is a bit beyond my RTEMS knowledge. What would you advise looking into?

I would try to instrument the code to figure out where the thread dispatch disable level goes negative.

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