Hi Michael,
> My first thought is that this is another effect of the RPRO propagation change.
Can you explain what that is?
The same change which led to the issue you encountered with busyRecord.
Which reminds me that I have a candidate fix for that.
> To ask the obvious question. Have you tried correcting this?
My messager said this:
> I am able to fix the problem by changing the PP links in _lim to CP links, as I think was intended.
Is that what you mean by "correcting this"?
Sorry Mark. I typing this on a bus ride home. I was too focused on figuring out what that db was doing and didn't read to the end of your mail.
Thanks,
Mark
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From: Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 10:06 PM
To: Mark Rivers
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Strange change in behavior from 7.0.1 to 7.0.2
My first thought is that this is another effect of the RPRO propagation change.
Though I don't see anything asynchronous here, nor any CA links.
(I've looked at transformRecord though)
You should be able to get some more information by setting TPRO=1 on all record, and also adding
> var(dbAccessDebugPUTF, 1)
to your ioc shell script.
> ... Note that the _lim record appears to contain a serious logic error. ...
To ask the obvious question. Have you tried correcting this?
On 1/23/19 3:50 PM, Mark Rivers via Core-talk wrote:
> Folks,
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> I updated from 7.0.1 (actually some commit between 7.0.1) to 7.0.2. We discovered today that a very old database that has worked fine for 15 years stopped working. It is a database to run Pico Motors, which are piezo actuators controlled via RS-232. I have attached the database, and it is also on Github here: https://github.com/epics-modules/ip/blob/master/ipApp/Db/picoMotor.db .
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> The device can only work in relative moves in steps.
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> For this discussion the problem can be restricted to these 3 records.
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> _pos is an absolute drive field. We write to that from CA clients. It writes to the _rel record with PP.
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> _rel is a transform record that computes the relative move amount. It forward links to the _lim field, and sends the computed relative move to the _trunc record, which eventually sends it to the device.
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> _lim is a limit checking record. It compares _pos to software limit values and sets high and low limit flags if they are exceeded.
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> grecord(ao,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_pos") {
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> field(DESC,"PicoMotor Position in EGUs")
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> field(DTYP,"Soft Channel")
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> field(SDIS,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_movn.VAL NPP NMS")
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> field(FLNK,"0")
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> field(OUT,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_rel.A PP MS")
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> field(PREC,"3")
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> }
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> grecord(transform,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_rel") {
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> field(DESC,"Convert EGUs to rel steps")
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> field(FLNK,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_lim.PROC")
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> field(CLCD,"(A>B)?(A-B):(A<B)?(-1*(B-A)):0")
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> field(CLCE,"NINT((1/C)*D)")
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> field(CLCF,"A")
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> field(CLCH,"G=0?E:G=1?((-1)*E):E")
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> field(INPA,"0")
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> field(INPB,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_prev.VAL NPP MS")
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> field(INPC,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_res.VAL NPP MS")
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> field(INPG,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_dir.VAL NPP MS")
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> field(OUTC,"0")
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> field(OUTD,"0")
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> field(OUTE,"0")
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> field(OUTF,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_prev.VAL PP MS")
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> field(OUTG,"0")
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> field(OUTH,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_trunc.A PP MS")
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> field(PREC,"6")
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> field(CMTC,"user input EGUs/step")
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> field(CMTD,"rel change in EGUs")
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> field(CMTE,"rel change in steps")
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> }
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> grecord(transform,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_lim") {
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> field(CLCD,"A>=C?1:0")
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> field(CLCE,"A<=B?1:0")
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> field(INPA,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_pos.VAL PP MS")
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> field(INPB,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_pos.DRVL PP MS")
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> field(INPC,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_pos.DRVH PP MS")
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> field(OUTD,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_hi.VAL PP MS")
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> field(OUTE,"$(P)$(S):$(D):pM$(M)_lo.VAL PP MS")
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> }
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> Note that the _lim record appears to contain a serious logic error. The INPA, INPB, and INPC links to the _pos record are PP. This is almost certainly not what was intended. They should probably be CP so the record processes whenever those POS fields change.
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> However, with this logic error the database has worked fine, including with 7.0.1.
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> However, with 7.0.2 it no longer works. What happens now is that the _pos and _rel records process twice in rapid succession. _pos -> _rel -> _lim -> _/pos ->/_rel
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> The second processing of _rel computes a relative distance of 0 counts, because _prev now equals _pos. This calculation happens before the previous relative move command is sent to the controller, with the net result being that every move command sent to the controller is now for 0 counts and it never moves.
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> I am able to fix the problem by changing the PP links in _lim to CP links, as I think was intended.
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> My question is why did it ever work, and what has changed in 7.0.2 that caused it to stop working?
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> Thanks,
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> Mark
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