Add rtems_interrupt_local_disable|enable() as suggested by Pavel Pisa to
emphasize that interrupts are only disabled on the current processor.
Do not define the rtems_interrupt_disable|enable|flash() macros and
functions on SMP configurations since they don't ensure system wide
mutual exclusion.
Aggregate several critical sections into a bigger one. Sending and
receiving messages is now protected by an ISR lock. Thread dispatching
is only disabled in case a blocking operation is necessary. The message
copy procedure is done inside the critical section (interrupts
disabled). Thus this change may have a negative impact on the interrupt
latency in case very large messages are transferred.
Update #2273.
Deprecate Classic API Notepads. Mark task_set/get_note() with
the deprecated attribute, and also mark the notepads field.
Replace disable with enable option for notepads in confdefs.h,
and make notepads disabled by default. The previous option
CONFIGURE_DISABLE_CLASSIC_API_NOTEPADS is now unused and
will emit a compile-time warning. A new option
CONFIGURE_ENABLE_CLASSIC_API_NOTEPADS is available to turn
on notepads, but it also will emit a compile-time warning
to indicate that notepads are deprecated.
Closes#2265
Remove miniIMFS. Statically initialize the root IMFS.
Add configuration options to disable individual
features of the root IMFS, e.g.
o CONFIGURE_IMFS_DISABLE_CHOWN,
o CONFIGURE_IMFS_DISABLE_FCHMOD,
o CONFIGURE_IMFS_DISABLE_LINK,
o CONFIGURE_IMFS_DISABLE_MKNOD,
o CONFIGURE_IMFS_DISABLE_MOUNT,
o CONFIGURE_IMFS_DISABLE_READLINK,
o CONFIGURE_IMFS_DISABLE_RENAME,
o CONFIGURE_IMFS_DISABLE_RMNOD,
o CONFIGURE_IMFS_DISABLE_SYMLINK,
o CONFIGURE_IMFS_DISABLE_UNMOUNT, and
o CONFIGURE_IMFS_DISABLE_UTIME.
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.
Add basic support for the Multiprocessor Resource Sharing Protocol
(MrsP).
The Multiprocessor Resource Sharing Protocol (MrsP) is defined in A.
Burns and A.J. Wellings, A Schedulability Compatible Multiprocessor
Resource Sharing Protocol - MrsP, Proceedings of the 25th Euromicro
Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2013), July 2013. It is a
generalization of the Priority Ceiling Protocol to SMP systems. Each
MrsP semaphore uses a ceiling priority per scheduler instance. These
ceiling priorities can be specified with rtems_semaphore_set_priority().
A task obtaining or owning a MrsP semaphore will execute with the
ceiling priority for its scheduler instance as specified by the MrsP
semaphore object. Tasks waiting to get ownership of a MrsP semaphore
will not relinquish the processor voluntarily. In case the owner of a
MrsP semaphore gets preempted it can ask all tasks waiting for this
semaphore to help out and temporarily borrow the right to execute on one
of their assigned processors.
The help out feature is not implemented with this patch.
The function to change a thread priority was too complex. Simplify it
with a new scheduler operation. This increases the average case
performance due to the simplified logic. The interrupt disabled
critical section is a bit prolonged since now the extract, update and
enqueue steps are executed atomically. This should however not impact
the worst-case interrupt latency since at least for the Deterministic
Priority Scheduler this sequence can be carried out with a wee bit of
instructions and no loops.
Add _Scheduler_Change_priority() to replace the sequence of
- _Thread_Set_transient(),
- _Scheduler_Extract(),
- _Scheduler_Enqueue(), and
- _Scheduler_Enqueue_first().
Delete STATES_TRANSIENT, _States_Is_transient() and
_Thread_Set_transient() since this state is now superfluous.
With this change it is possible to get rid of the
SCHEDULER_SMP_NODE_IN_THE_AIR state. This considerably simplifies the
implementation of the new SMP locking protocols.
The current implementation of task migration in RTEMS has some
implications with respect to the interrupt latency. It is crucial to
preserve the system invariant that a task can execute on at most one
processor in the system at a time. This is accomplished with a boolean
indicator in the task context. The processor architecture specific
low-level task context switch code will mark that a task context is no
longer executing and waits that the heir context stopped execution
before it restores the heir context and resumes execution of the heir
task. So there is one point in time in which a processor is without a
task. This is essential to avoid cyclic dependencies in case multiple
tasks migrate at once. Otherwise some supervising entity is necessary to
prevent life-locks. Such a global supervisor would lead to scalability
problems so this approach is not used. Currently the thread dispatch is
performed with interrupts disabled. So in case the heir task is
currently executing on another processor then this prolongs the time of
disabled interrupts since one processor has to wait for another
processor to make progress.
It is difficult to avoid this issue with the interrupt latency since
interrupts normally store the context of the interrupted task on its
stack. In case a task is marked as not executing we must not use its
task stack to store such an interrupt context. We cannot use the heir
stack before it stopped execution on another processor. So if we enable
interrupts during this transition we have to provide an alternative task
independent stack for this time frame. This issue needs further
investigation.
