> From: Ming Lei [mailto:lei.ming@attbi.com]
>
> ...
>
> There is a global variable I define as 'int cpl'. All the threads and main
> process may alter cpl at any time. cpl may have one of these values {0,
> 0xf000006e, 0xf0000068, 0xe0000000, 0xe0000060}.
>
> <Problem=> at some point of execution which cpl should be a value say
> e0000060, but the actual value retained at cpl is another say e0000000;
that
> is, the value is changed without the program actually done anything on it.
> The retained value I observed is kind of historic value(one of these value
> in the above set), not the arbituary value. The problem had occured just
> after context switch, also occured during a thread execution.
Probably GCC is keeping the value of the variable around in
some register. Did you declare the global variable as 'volatile'?
[as in "it can be modified by entities external to the flow of
the code"]. Try that.
On the other hand - being an integer, access should be atomic,
most of the time, but I would not really trust that, at least
portability wise. Protecting access to it with a mutex would
be a good idea ...
> Is linux kernel 2.4.10 considered strictly preemptive such as VxWorks or
> other RTOS?
Nope
> I guess 2.4.10 may simulate preemptive with running scheduler on
> every syscall or interrupt returns. Am I right?
You need the preemption patches or 2.5
I hope you are not trying to do serious real-time w/ Linux ... are you?
> Is printf() real-time priority thread safe?
Dunno - you'd have to check the internal implementation in
glibc. Last time I heard anything about it, it had some
mutex dangling around, but I could be wrong.
Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own
(and my fault)
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