[ECOS] calling path questions, thanks.
Qiang Huang
jameshq@hotmail.com
Fri Sep 29 13:19:00 GMT 2006
Hi all:
I am trying to understand (actuall studying) the internal of context
switching for the ARM target. What I have figured out (but not really sure
about it, hopfully anybody can correct me if it were wrong).
For the following circumstance:
Thread 1 is running and issue a SWI, when inside "software_interrupt from
vectors.s", an IRQ occurs then uP will run the IRQ code and eventually runs
into interrupt_end which would possibly cause a context switching (say
switch from thread 1 to thread 2), when return "hal_thread_switch_context"
thread 2 will be loadded and run, but how are SWI? is SWI be preempted by
thread 2 and only get the chance to continue when uP is switched back to
thread 1? Am I making any mistake here?
( Stack usage questions:
Is SWI using thread level stack after invoking of "call_exception_handler"?
)
Also while reading the code I found difficulties in understanding saving of
pre-exception mode registers?
If supervisor mode is the prefer mode for execution (though IRQs will run a
porption of code segment in IRQs mode it will switched to supervisor mode as
soon as it can) isn't the pre-exception mode is always the supervisor mode?
Is there any possibilities to get a calling graph during context
switching(ref link/doc)?
(for instance: thread 1 is running and issue a SWI command then IRQ occurs
and thread 2 is made to run as the next ready thread.)
Please forgive me if I am asking the wrong question.
Thanks a lot.
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