Qemu doesn't like tickless. By default[1] it tries to be realtime as
vied by the host CPU -- presenting read values from hardware cycle
counters and interrupt timings at the appropriate real world clock
times according to whatever the simulated counter frequency is. But
when the host system is loaded, there is always the problem that the
qemu process might not see physical CPU time for large chunks of time
(i.e. a host OS scheduling quantum -- generally about the same size as
guest ticks!) leading to lost cycles.
When those timer interrupts are delivered by the emulated hardware at
fixed frequencies without software intervention, that's not so bad:
the work the guest has to do after the interrupt generally happens
synchronously (because the qemu process has just started running) and
nothing notices the dropout.
But with tickless, the interrupts need to be explicitly programmed by
guest software! That means the driver needs to be sure it's going to
get some real CPU time within some small fraction of a Zephyr tick of
the right time, otherwise the computations get wonky.
The end result is that qemu tends to work with tickless well on an
unloaded/idle run, but not in situations (like sanitycheck) where it
needs to content with other processes for host CPU.
So, add a flag that drivers can use to "fake" tickless behavior when
run under qemu (only), and enable it (only!) for the small handful of
tests that are having trouble.
[1] There is an -icount feature to implement proper cycle counting at
the expense of real-world-time correspondence. Maybe someday we might
get it to work for us.
Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
In the POSIX architecture, with the inf_clock "SOC", time does
not pass while the CPU is running. Tests that require time to pass
while busy waiting should call k_busy_wait() or in some other way
set the CPU to idle. This test was setting the CPU to idle while
waiting for the next time slice. This is ok if the system tick
(timer) is active and awaking the CPU every system tick period.
But when configured in tickless mode that is not the case, and the
CPU was set to sleep for an indefinite amount of time.
This commit fixes it by using k_busy_wait(a few microseconds) inside
that busy wait loop instead.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Escolar Piedras <alpi@oticon.com>
When using an IDE (e.g. Eclipse, Qt Creator), the project name gets
displayed. This greatly simplifies the navigation between projects when
having many of them open at the same time. Naming every project "NONE"
defeats this functionality.
This patch tries to use sensible project names while not duplicating
too much of what is already represented in the path. This is done by
using the name of the directory the relevant CMakeLists.txt file is
stored in. To ensure unique project names in the samples (and again, in
the tests folder) folder, small manual adjustments have been done.
Signed-off-by: Reto Schneider <code@reto-schneider.ch>
bat_commit is an old and obsolete tag that has not been maintained over
time and was supposed to serve a purpose that is obsolete now. Also
rename core tag with kernel.
Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
Prepend the text 'cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.8.2)' into the
application and test build scripts.
Modern versions of CMake will spam users with a deprecation warning
when the toplevel CMakeLists.txt does not specify a CMake
version. This is documented in bug #8355.
To resolve this we include a cmake_minimum_required() line into the
toplevel build scripts. Additionally, cmake_minimum_required is
invoked from within boilerplate.cmake. The highest version will be
enforced.
This patch allows us to afterwards change CMake policy CMP000 from OLD
to NEW which in turn finally rids us of the verbose warning.
The extra boilerplate is considered more acceptable than the verbosity
of the CMP0000 policy.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Bøe <sebastian.boe@nordicsemi.no>
This commit replaces _TICK_ALIGN correction in the test (which was based
on simple division), by more precise estimation using __ticks_to_ms()
and _ms_to_ticks() functions.
This commit fixes#8899.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Zięcik <piotr.ziecik@nordicsemi.no>
These tests had very small stacks, and the rbtree scheduler on
qemu_x86 (which does need a little extra stack room, though not much)
is bumping up against the limit. Increase by ~128 bytes in most
cases. In the case of the mbox_api test, there are other platforms
(which don't use the tree) which are right against the limit already
and will fail to link with a larger stack, so bump it for qemu_x86
only.
Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
This patch do following things :
- fix checkpatch warnings
- replace conditions with ztest apis wherever necessary
Signed-off-by: Punit Vara <punit.vara@intel.com>
Introducing CMake is an important step in a larger effort to make
Zephyr easy to use for application developers working on different
platforms with different development environment needs.
Simplified, this change retains Kconfig as-is, and replaces all
Makefiles with CMakeLists.txt. The DSL-like Make language that KBuild
offers is replaced by a set of CMake extentions. These extentions have
either provided simple one-to-one translations of KBuild features or
introduced new concepts that replace KBuild concepts.
This is a breaking change for existing test infrastructure and build
scripts that are maintained out-of-tree. But for FW itself, no porting
should be necessary.
For users that just want to continue their work with minimal
disruption the following should suffice:
Install CMake 3.8.2+
Port any out-of-tree Makefiles to CMake.
Learn the absolute minimum about the new command line interface:
$ cd samples/hello_world
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake -DBOARD=nrf52_pca10040 ..
$ cd build
$ make
PR: zephyrproject-rtos#4692
docs: http://docs.zephyrproject.org/getting_started/getting_started.html
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Boe <sebastian.boe@nordicsemi.no>
This will prepare test cases and samples with metadata and information
that will be consumed by the sanitycheck script which will be changed to
parse YAML files instead of ini.
Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
