Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Till Straumann <[email protected]> · Thu, 12 May 2011 20:02:16 -0500

On 05/12/2011 07:31 PM, Benjamin Franksen wrote:

Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2011, um 02:07:20 schrieb Ernest L. Williams Jr.:

Till Straumann wrote:

On 05/12/2011 05:22 PM, Zelazny, Michael Stanley wrote:

If, for example, dbLoadRecords, initializing some hardware module,
cd("some/dir"), etc. fails while an IOC is booting, is there any way to
trap this in my st.cmd and take an action, such as abort the IOC boot?

Under RTEMS (cexpsh shell -- every line is a C expression)
you can easily do that (provided that the routine you want to trap
returns a status)

dbLoadRecords(...)&&  bsp_reset()

will reset the board if dbLoadRecords() returns
a non-zero value.

However, rebooting is maybe not the best way to
handle this since you will most likely end up in
an endless loop (since the error condition doesn't
go away with a reboot).

What we really want is for the whole process to just stop.
For example, in RTEMS if there is an undefined symbol the system errors
out and stops.
Or is that vxWorks, I am thinking of?

If I remember correctly,  I have once done this for VxWorks by calling
exit(EXIT_FAILURE). This will abort the shell task and the boot process stops.
It will, however, not stop other tasks that have aleady been started, so is
useful only until shortly before iocInit completes.

Under RTEMS

exit()

shuts down the executive, i.e., all tasking is stopped and the
entire system tries to return to the environment from where
it was started.

MotLoad based boards cannot return to the MotLoad environment since
essential data structures of MotLoad have been destroyed (RAM, interrupt
vectors etc.). Therefore, the BSP resets the board after RTEMS shuts
down. Hence, exit() is not much different from bsp_reset() but it does
e.g., execute all the atexit() hooks etc. I'm not sure (off my head)
at what point C++ global destructors are executed.

T.

Cheers
Ben

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