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In uniprocessor and SMP configurations, the context switch extensions
were called during _Thread_Do_dispatch():
void _Thread_Do_dispatch( Per_CPU_Control *cpu_self, ISR_Level level )
{
Thread_Control *executing;
executing = cpu_self->executing;
...
do {
Thread_Control *heir;
heir = _Thread_Get_heir_and_make_it_executing( cpu_self );
...
_User_extensions_Thread_switch( executing, heir );
...
_Context_Switch( &executing->Registers, &heir->Registers );
...
} while ( cpu_self->dispatch_necessary );
...
}
In uniprocessor configurations, this is fine and the context switch
extensions are called for all thread switches except the very first
thread switch to the initialization thread. However, in SMP
configurations, the context switch may be invalidated and updated in the
low-level _Context_Switch() routine. See:
https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/c-user/symmetric_multiprocessing_services.html#thread-dispatch-details
In case such an update happens, a thread will execute on the processor
which was not seen in the previous call of the context switch
extensions. This can confuse for example event record consumers which
use events generated by a context switch extension.
Fixing this is not straight forward. The context switch extensions call
must move after the low-level context switch. The problem here is that
we may end up in _Thread_Handler(). Adding the context switch
extensions call to _Thread_Handler() covers now also the thread switch
to the initialization thread. We also have to save the last executing
thread (ancestor) of the processor. Registers or the stack cannot be
used for this purpose. We have to add it to the per-processor
information. Existing extensions may be affected, since now context
switch extensions use the stack of the heir thread. The stack checker
is affected by this.
Calling the thread switch extensions in the low-level context switch is
difficult since at this point an intermediate stack is used which is
only large enough to enable servicing of interrupts.
Update #3885.
This directory contains for the "miscellaneous" library. Currently this library contains a number of useful support libraries: + Task Stack Overflow Checker + Workspace Consistency Checker + Task Execution Time Monitor + Period Statistics Monitor + Debug Monitor The following ideas have been mentioned for items which could go in this library, but this list is not all inclusive: + there are no outstanding suggestions. The intent of this library is to provide a home for useful utility routines which are dependent upon RTEMS. --joel 16 Sept 97