// (C) Copyright Dustin Spicuzza 2009. // Adapted to vxWorks 6.9 by Peter Brockamp 2012. // Use, modification and distribution are subject to the // Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file // LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) // See http://www.boost.org for most recent version. // Since WRS does not yet properly support boost under vxWorks // and this file was badly outdated, but I was keen on using it, // I patched boost myself to make things work. This has been tested // and adapted by me for vxWorks 6.9 *only*, as I'm lacking access // to earlier 6.X versions! The only thing I know for sure is that // very old versions of vxWorks (namely everything below 6.x) are // absolutely unable to use boost. This is mainly due to the completely // outdated libraries and ancient compiler (GCC 2.96 or worse). Do // not even think of getting this to work, a miserable failure will // be guaranteed! // Equally, this file has been tested for RTPs (Real Time Processes) // only, not for DKMs (Downloadable Kernel Modules). These two types // of executables differ largely in the available functionality of // the C-library, STL, and so on. A DKM uses a library similar to those // of vxWorks 5.X - with all its limitations and incompatibilities // with respect to ANSI C++ and STL. So probably there might be problems // with the usage of boost from DKMs. WRS or any voluteers are free to // prove the opposite! // ==================================================================== // // Some important information regarding the usage of POSIX semaphores: // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // // VxWorks as a real time operating system handles threads somewhat // different from what "normal" OSes do, regarding their scheduling! // This could lead to a scenario called "priority inversion" when using // semaphores, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_inversion. // // Now, VxWorks POSIX-semaphores for DKM's default to the usage of // priority inverting semaphores, which is fine. On the other hand, // for RTP's it defaults to using non priority inverting semaphores, // which could easily pose a serious problem for a real time process, // i.e. deadlocks! To overcome this two possibilities do exist: // // a) Patch every piece of boost that uses semaphores to instanciate // the proper type of semaphores. This is non-intrusive with respect // to the OS and could relatively easy been done by giving all // semaphores attributes deviating from the default (for in-depth // information see the POSIX functions pthread_mutexattr_init() // and pthread_mutexattr_setprotocol()). However this breaks all // too easily, as with every new version some boost library could // all in a sudden start using semaphores, resurrecting the very // same, hard to locate problem over and over again! // // b) We could change the default properties for POSIX-semaphores // that VxWorks uses for RTP's and this is being suggested here, // as it will more or less seamlessly integrate with boost. I got // the following information from WRS how to do this, compare // Wind River TSR# 1209768: // // Instructions for changing the default properties of POSIX- // semaphores for RTP's in VxWorks 6.9: // - Edit the file /vxworks-6.9/target/usr/src/posix/pthreadLib.c // in the root of your Workbench-installation. // - Around line 917 there should be the definition of the default // mutex attributes: // // LOCAL pthread_mutexattr_t defaultMutexAttr = // { // PTHREAD_INITIALIZED_OBJ, PTHREAD_PRIO_NONE, 0, // PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT // }; // // Here, replace PTHREAD_PRIO_NONE by PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT. // - Around line 1236 there should be a definition for the function // pthread_mutexattr_init(). A couple of lines below you should // find a block of code like this: // // pAttr->mutexAttrStatus = PTHREAD_INITIALIZED_OBJ; // pAttr->mutexAttrProtocol = PTHREAD_PRIO_NONE; // pAttr->mutexAttrPrioceiling = 0; // pAttr->mutexAttrType = PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT; // // Here again, replace PTHREAD_PRIO_NONE by PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT. // - Finally, rebuild your VSB. This will create a new VxWorks kernel // with the changed properties. That's it! Now, using boost should // no longer cause any problems with task deadlocks! // // And here's another useful piece of information concerning VxWorks' // POSIX-functionality in general: // VxWorks is not a genuine POSIX-OS in itself, rather it is using a // kind of compatibility layer (sort of a wrapper) to emulate the // POSIX-functionality by using its own resources and functions. // At the time a task (thread) calls it's first POSIX-function during // runtime it is being transformed by the OS into a POSIX-thread. // This transformation does include a call to malloc() to allocate the // memory required for the housekeeping of POSIX-threads. In a high // priority RTP this malloc() call may be highly undesirable, as its // timing is more or less unpredictable (depending on what your actual // heap looks like). You can circumvent this problem by calling the // function thread_self() at a well defined point in the code of the // task, e.g. shortly after the task spawns up. Thereby you are able // to define the time when the task-transformation will take place and // you could shift it to an uncritical point where a malloc() call is // tolerable. So, if this could pose a problem for your code, remember // to call thread_self() from the affected task at an early stage. // // ==================================================================== // Block out all versions before vxWorks 6.x, as these don't work: // Include header with the vxWorks version information and query them #include #if !defined(_WRS_VXWORKS_MAJOR) || (_WRS_VXWORKS_MAJOR < 6) # error "The vxWorks version you're using is so badly outdated,\ it doesn't work at all with boost, sorry, no chance!" #endif // Handle versions above 5.X but below 6.9 #if (_WRS_VXWORKS_MAJOR == 6) && (_WRS_VXWORKS_MINOR < 9) // TODO: Starting from what version does vxWorks work with boost? // We can't reasonably insert a #warning "" as a user hint here, // as this will show up with every file including some boost header, // badly bugging the user... So for the time being we just leave it. #endif // vxWorks specific config options: // -------------------------------- #define BOOST_PLATFORM "vxWorks" // Special behaviour for DKMs: #ifdef _WRS_KERNEL // DKMs do not have the -header, // but apparently they do have an intrinsic wchar_t meanwhile! # define BOOST_NO_CWCHAR // Lots of wide-functions and -headers are unavailable for DKMs as well: # define BOOST_NO_CWCTYPE # define BOOST_NO_SWPRINTF # define BOOST_NO_STD_WSTRING # define BOOST_NO_STD_WSTREAMBUF #endif // Generally available headers: #define BOOST_HAS_UNISTD_H #define BOOST_HAS_STDINT_H #define BOOST_HAS_DIRENT_H #define BOOST_HAS_SLIST // vxWorks does not have installed an iconv-library by default, // so unfortunately no Unicode support from scratch is available! // Thus, instead it is suggested to switch to ICU, as this seems // to be the most complete and portable option... #define BOOST_LOCALE_WITH_ICU // Generally available functionality: #define BOOST_HAS_THREADS #define BOOST_HAS_NANOSLEEP #define BOOST_HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY #define BOOST_HAS_CLOCK_GETTIME #define BOOST_HAS_MACRO_USE_FACET // Generally unavailable functionality, delivered by boost's test function: //#define BOOST_NO_DEDUCED_TYPENAME // Commented this out, boost's test gives an errorneous result! #define BOOST_NO_CXX11_EXTERN_TEMPLATE #define BOOST_NO_CXX11_VARIADIC_MACROS // Generally available threading API's: #define BOOST_HAS_PTHREADS #define BOOST_HAS_SCHED_YIELD #define BOOST_HAS_SIGACTION // Functionality available for RTPs only: #ifdef __RTP__ # define BOOST_HAS_PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_SETTYPE # define BOOST_HAS_LOG1P # define BOOST_HAS_EXPM1 #endif // Functionality available for DKMs only: #ifdef _WRS_KERNEL // Luckily, at the moment there seems to be none! #endif // These #defines allow posix_features to work, since vxWorks doesn't // #define them itself for DKMs (for RTPs on the contrary it does): #ifdef _WRS_KERNEL # ifndef _POSIX_TIMERS # define _POSIX_TIMERS 1 # endif # ifndef _POSIX_THREADS # define _POSIX_THREADS 1 # endif #endif // vxWorks doesn't work with asio serial ports: #define BOOST_ASIO_DISABLE_SERIAL_PORT // TODO: The problem here seems to bee that vxWorks uses its own, very specific // ways to handle serial ports, incompatible with POSIX or anything... // Maybe a specific implementation would be possible, but until the // straight need arises... This implementation would presumably consist // of some vxWorks specific ioctl-calls, etc. Any voluteers? // vxWorks-around: #defines CLOCKS_PER_SEC as sysClkRateGet() but // miserably fails to #include the required to make // sysClkRateGet() available! So we manually include it here. #ifdef __RTP__ # include # include #endif // vxWorks-around: In the macros INT32_C(), UINT32_C(), INT64_C() and // UINT64_C() are defined errorneously, yielding not a signed/ // unsigned long/long long type, but a signed/unsigned int/long // type. Eventually this leads to compile errors in ratio_fwd.hpp, // when trying to define several constants which do not fit into a // long type! We correct them here by redefining. #include // Some macro-magic to do the job #define VX_JOIN(X, Y) VX_DO_JOIN(X, Y) #define VX_DO_JOIN(X, Y) VX_DO_JOIN2(X, Y) #define VX_DO_JOIN2(X, Y) X##Y // Correctly setup the macros #undef INT32_C #undef UINT32_C #undef INT64_C #undef UINT64_C #define INT32_C(x) VX_JOIN(x, L) #define UINT32_C(x) VX_JOIN(x, UL) #define INT64_C(x) VX_JOIN(x, LL) #define UINT64_C(x) VX_JOIN(x, ULL) // #include Libraries required for the following function adaption #include #include #include // Use C-linkage for the following helper functions extern "C" { // vxWorks-around: The required functions getrlimit() and getrlimit() are missing. // But we have the similar functions getprlimit() and setprlimit(), // which may serve the purpose. // Problem: The vxWorks-documentation regarding these functions // doesn't deserve its name! It isn't documented what the first two // parameters idtype and id mean, so we must fall back to an educated // guess - null, argh... :-/ // TODO: getprlimit() and setprlimit() do exist for RTPs only, for whatever reason. // Thus for DKMs there would have to be another implementation. #ifdef __RTP__ inline int getrlimit(int resource, struct rlimit *rlp){ return getprlimit(0, 0, resource, rlp); } inline int setrlimit(int resource, const struct rlimit *rlp){ return setprlimit(0, 0, resource, const_cast(rlp)); } #endif // vxWorks has ftruncate() only, so we do simulate truncate(): inline int truncate(const char *p, off_t l){ int fd = open(p, O_WRONLY); if (fd == -1){ errno = EACCES; return -1; } if (ftruncate(fd, l) == -1){ close(fd); errno = EACCES; return -1; } return close(fd); } // Fake symlink handling by dummy functions: inline int symlink(const char*, const char*){ // vxWorks has no symlinks -> always return an error! errno = EACCES; return -1; } inline ssize_t readlink(const char*, char*, size_t){ // vxWorks has no symlinks -> always return an error! errno = EACCES; return -1; } // vxWorks claims to implement gettimeofday in sys/time.h // but nevertheless does not provide it! See // https://support.windriver.com/olsPortal/faces/maintenance/techtipDetail_noHeader.jspx?docId=16442&contentId=WR_TECHTIP_006256 // We implement a surrogate version here via clock_gettime: inline int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, void * /*tzv*/) { struct timespec ts; clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts); tv->tv_sec = ts.tv_sec; tv->tv_usec = ts.tv_nsec / 1000; return 0; } // vxWorks does provide neither struct tms nor function times()! // We implement an empty dummy-function, simply setting the user // and system time to the half of thew actual system ticks-value // and the child user and system time to 0. // Rather ugly but at least it suppresses compiler errors... // Unfortunately, this of course *does* have an severe impact on // dependant libraries, actually this is chrono only! Here it will // not be possible to correctly use user and system times! But // as vxWorks is lacking the ability to calculate user and system // process times there seems to be no other possible solution. struct tms{ clock_t tms_utime; // User CPU time clock_t tms_stime; // System CPU time clock_t tms_cutime; // User CPU time of terminated child processes clock_t tms_cstime; // System CPU time of terminated child processes }; inline clock_t times(struct tms *t){ struct timespec ts; clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, &ts); clock_t ticks(static_cast(static_cast(ts.tv_sec) * CLOCKS_PER_SEC + static_cast(ts.tv_nsec) * CLOCKS_PER_SEC / 1000000.0)); t->tms_utime = ticks/2U; t->tms_stime = ticks/2U; t->tms_cutime = 0; // vxWorks is lacking the concept of a child process! t->tms_cstime = 0; // -> Set the wait times for childs to 0 return ticks; } } // extern "C" // Put the selfmade functions into the std-namespace, just in case namespace std { # ifdef __RTP__ using ::getrlimit; using ::setrlimit; # endif using ::truncate; using ::symlink; using ::readlink; using ::times; using ::gettimeofday; } // Some more macro-magic: // vxWorks-around: Some functions are not present or broken in vxWorks // but may be patched to life via helper macros... // Include signal.h which might contain a typo to be corrected here #include #define getpagesize() sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) // getpagesize is deprecated anyway! #ifndef S_ISSOCK # define S_ISSOCK(mode) ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFSOCK) // Is file a socket? #endif #define lstat(p, b) stat(p, b) // lstat() == stat(), as vxWorks has no symlinks! #ifndef FPE_FLTINV # define FPE_FLTINV (FPE_FLTSUB+1) // vxWorks has no FPE_FLTINV, so define one as a dummy #endif #if !defined(BUS_ADRALN) && defined(BUS_ADRALNR) # define BUS_ADRALN BUS_ADRALNR // Correct a supposed typo in vxWorks' #endif //typedef int locale_t; // locale_t is a POSIX-extension, currently unpresent in vxWorks! // #include boilerplate code: #include // vxWorks lies about XSI conformance, there is no nl_types.h: #undef BOOST_HAS_NL_TYPES_H