On 04/02/2018 04:54 PM, Steve Freyder wrote:
> On 4/2/2018 8:41 AM, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>> On 04/01/2018 07:28 PM, Steve Freyder wrote:
>>> Greetings again.
>>>
>>> As I understand it, for each rt_queue there's supposed to be a
>>> "status file" located in the fuse filesystem underneath the
>>> "/run/xenomai/user/session/pid/alchemy/queues" directory, with
>>> the file name being the queue name.  This used to contain very
>>> useful info about queue status, message counts, etc.  I don't know
>>> when it broke or whether it's something I'm doing wrong but I'm
>>> now getting a "memory exhausted" message on the console when I
>>> attempt to do a "cat" on the status file.
>>>
>>> Here's a small C program that just creates a queue, and then does
>>> a pause to hold the accessor count non-zero.
>>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> The resulting output (logged in via the system console):
>>>
>>> # sh qtest.sh
>>> + sleep 1
>>> + ./qc --mem-pool-size=64M --session=mysession foo
>>> + find /run/xenomai
>>> /run/xenomai
>>> /run/xenomai/root
>>> /run/xenomai/root/mysession
>>> /run/xenomai/root/mysession/821
>>> /run/xenomai/root/mysession/821/alchemy
>>> /run/xenomai/root/mysession/821/alchemy/tasks
>>> /run/xenomai/root/mysession/821/alchemy/tasks/task@1[821]
>>> /run/xenomai/root/mysession/821/alchemy/queues
>>> /run/xenomai/root/mysession/821/alchemy/queues/foo
>>> /run/xenomai/root/mysession/system
>>> /run/xenomai/root/mysession/system/threads
>>> /run/xenomai/root/mysession/system/heaps
>>> /run/xenomai/root/mysession/system/version
>>> + qfile='/run/xenomai/*/*/*/alchemy/queues/foo'
>>> + cat /run/xenomai/root/mysession/821/alchemy/queues/foo
>>> memory exhausted
>>>
>>> At this point, it hangs, although SIGINT usually terminates it.
>>>
>>> I've seen some cases where SIGINT won't terminate it, and a reboot is
>>> required to clean things up.  I see this message appears to be logged
>>> in the obstack error handler.  I don't think I'm running out of memory,
>>> which makes me think "heap corruption".  Not much of an analysis!  I did
>>> try varying queue sizes and max message counts - no change.
>>>
>> I can't reproduce this. I would suspect a rampant memory corruption too,
>> although running the test code over valgrind (mercury build) did not
>> reveal any issue.
>>
>> - which Xenomai version are you using?
>> - cobalt / mercury ?
>> - do you enable the shared heap when configuring ? (--enable-pshared)
>>
> 
> I'm using Cobalt.  uname -a reports:
> 
> Linux sdftest 4.1.18_C01571-15S00-00.000.zimg+83fdace666 #2 SMP Fri Mar
> 9 11:07:52 CST 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux
> 
> Here is the config dump:
> 
> CONFIG_XENO_PSHARED=1

Any chance you could have some leftover files in /dev/shm from aborted
runs, which would steal RAM?

-- 
Philippe.

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