The priority affinity scheduler has the nice property that it can
produce more than one scheduled to ready state change in one operation.
Each scheduled to ready state change may lead to one thread in need for
help. Since it is currently only possible to return at most one thread
in need for help, we have a problem here.
A solution might be to move the check for migrations into the ask for
help mechanism.
Move the APBUART console driver support to the shared SPARC area so that
it can be reused by other BSPs. Only the console driver initialization
is now BSP specific.
Add a new low-level device API to Termios that passes the TTY structure
to the low-level device functions. This greatly simplifies the
low-level device drivers since they are no longer forced to derive their
private data from the minor number.
It makes it possible to use the TTY low-level lock in the device driver
low-level functions which is necessary for proper SMP support. For
example to set the attributes it is often necessary to perform a
read-modify-write operation on a control register used also by interrupt
routines.
A compatibility layer is provided to support device drivers using the
old callback functions so it is not necessary to modify existing device
drivers.
The following scheduler operations return a thread in need for help
- unblock,
- change priority, and
- yield.
A thread in need for help is a thread that encounters a scheduler state
change from scheduled to ready or a thread that cannot be scheduled in
an unblock operation. Such a thread can ask threads which depend on
resources owned by this thread for help.
Add a new ask for help scheduler operation. This operation is used by
_Scheduler_Ask_for_help() to help threads in need for help returned by
the operations mentioned above. This operation is also used by
_Scheduler_Thread_change_resource_root() in case the root of a resource
sub-tree changes. A use case is the ownership change of a resource.
In case it is not possible to schedule a thread in need for help, then
the corresponding scheduler node will be placed into the set of ready
scheduler nodes of the scheduler instance. Once a state change from
ready to scheduled happens for this scheduler node it may be used to
schedule the thread in need for help.
Return a thread in need for help for the following scheduler operations
- unblock,
- change priority, and
- yield.
A thread in need for help is a thread that encounters a scheduler state
change from scheduled to ready or a thread that cannot be scheduled in
an unblock operation. Such a thread can ask threads which depend on
resources owned by this thread for help.
This emphasizes that the scheduler node of a thread is returned and this
is not a function working with scheduler nodes like the other *_Node_*()
functions.
Fix context switch on SMP for ARM, PowerPC and SPARC.
Atomically test and set the is executing indicator of the heir context
to ensure that at most one processor uses the heir context. Break the
busy wait loop also due to heir updates.
Rename bsp_mm_config_table to arm_cp15_start_mmu_config_table and
rename bsp_mm_config_table_size to arm_cp15_start_mmu_config_table_size
to be in line with the other names in <bsp/arm-cp15-start.h>.
.. according to the maximum number of termios ports which is
8. Since LEON3 uses PnP to find how many UARTs there are
present we must make sure worst case work.
The current maximum of 4 free nodes caused for example the
GR712RC with its 6 UARTs to fail during devfs02 test.
On SMP rtems_interrupt_lock_context must be used. Most tests fail with a
NULL pointer exception when exiting, except on NGMP where main memory is
at 0x00000000.
The _CPU_Context_Restart_self() implementations usually assume that self
context is executing.
FIXME: We have a race condition in _Thread_Start_multitasking() in case
another thread already performed scheduler operations and moved the heir
thread to another processor. The time frame for this is likely too
small to be practically relevant.
Close the thread object in _Thread_Make_zombie() so that all blocking
operations that use _Thread_Get() in the corresponding release directive
can find a terminating thread and can complete the operation.
Add a chain node to the scheduler node to decouple the thread and
scheduler nodes. It is now possible to enqueue a thread in a thread
wait queue and use its scheduler node at the same for other threads,
e.g. a resouce owner.
