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Subject: Re: Autosave and IOC shutdown
From: Ralph Lange <[email protected]>
To: "Mooney, Tim M." <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS Core-Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:26:25 +0200
Hi Tim,

(Sorry for sending to the wrong list. I had an email address entry labeled "Core-Talk" sending to tech-talk. Duh!)

Well played - as there's no distinct elaborate API for that stuff, the docs don't say too much.

There's a common pattern that is used in many places: global control variable plus a semaphore to wait for thread shutdown.
Look at dbScan.c or callback.c in BASE/src/ioc/db to get the idea.
Exit hooks registered using epicsAtExit() are called in reverse registration order. So, for a thread that uses services from Base: register late to be taken down early. (Autosave configuration is done well before iocInit - probably too early for its exit hook registration. Might be better to do it from the thread.)

BTW: All this is basically present in 3.14, so not restricted to 3.15.

Thanks a lot,
~Ralph


On 23/09/2014 18:02, Mooney, Tim M. wrote:
Hi Ralph,

I'd like to fix this.  There are several threads spawned by various synApps modules.  I'll read the 3.15 docs and see how to comply.

Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
Software Services Group (www.aps.anl.gov)
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab


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From: Ralph Lange [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 10:34 AM
To: Mooney, Tim M.
Cc: EPICS Core-Talk
Subject: Autosave and IOC shutdown

Hi Tim,

EPICS 3.15 is trying to make it easier for an IOC to cleanly shutdown.
It add tests and better control over shutdown hooks.
Autosave, on the other hand, starts a thread - running the
save_restore() function - that is designed to never shut down.

That seems like a clear conflict of interests, that shows as frequent
error messages on shutdown:

A call to 'assert(dbLockIsInitialized)'
     by thread 'save_restore' failed in ../../../src/ioc/db/dbLock.c
line 255.
EPICS Release EPICS R3.15.0.1-DEV $$Date$$.
Local time is 2014-09-23 14:17:13.090976814 UTC
Please E-mail this message to the author or to [email protected]
Calling epicsThreadSuspendSelf()
(Autosave trying to use cleaned-up stuff in Base.)

Do you have any thoughts on this?

Cheers,
~Ralph






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