RE: ca_search() and "preemptive callback"

["Mooney, Tim M." <mooney@aps.anl.gov>]

I don't know what's wrong, but there is a working example of ca_context_create(ca_enable_preemptive_callback) in autosave's save_restore.c.  It's done in a spawned thread, and not called from within SEVCHK(), but otherwise it looks just like your code.

Tim Mooney (mooney@aps.anl.gov) (630)252-5417
Beamline Controls Group (www.aps.anl.gov)
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab

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From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov [tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] on behalf of Michael Westfall [mwestfal@gemini.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 1:11 PM
To: Johnson, Andrew N.
Cc: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov Talk
Subject: Re: ca_search() and "preemptive callback"

It's in the main thread in a function that's called from the startup script after iocinit().

As far as I can tell, the purpose is to get channel IDs of some local database channels in order to get and put values to them.

I don't doubt that there is a different and better way to do this now-a-days... And maybe there was way back when this was originally implemented too. Who knows why things were done the way they were back in the primordial days..

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov> wrote:

Hi Mike,

On 01/05/2017 12:33 PM, Michael Westfall wrote:
> We are converting our legacy systems from EPICS 3.13/vxWorks to EPICS
> 3.14/RTEMS,
>
> I have an IOC that calls
> *SEVCHK( ca_search(buf, &id), "ca_search failed\n");*

Where is this code? What thread is going to execute it?

I suspect you're going to have to rewrite some of that subsystem, but
we'll need rather more information about what it's trying to do to be
able to give you much help.

- Andrew

> but it results in the following error:
> *dbContext: preemptive callback required for direct in
> memory interfacing of CA channels to the DB.
> CA.Client.Exception...............................................
>     Warning: "Not supported by attached service"
>     Context: "ca_search failed
> "
>     Source File: ../caLogDataDriver.c line 119
>     Current Time: Thu Jan 05 2017 18:02:41.367850828*
>
> OK, so I insert this first:
> *SEVCHK(ca_context_create(ca_enable_preemptive_callback),
> "caInitLogSetup() calling ca_context_create()");*
>
> But now I get this
> *CA.Client.Exception...............................................
>     Error: "Preemptive callback not enabled - additional threads may not
> join context"
>     Context: "caInitLogSetup() calling ca_context_create()"
>     Source File: ../caLogDataDriver.c line 106
>     Current Time: Thu Jan 05 2017 17:41:58.248806684
>
> *
> *
> *

> What am I missing? Do I need to supply a callback function first? The
> Channel Access documentation seems a bit sparse in this regard...
>
> --
> Mike Westfall
> Control Systems Software Engineer
>
>

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