3.0 Changelog
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| - | + | The changes made between Beta 2.8 and 3.0 follow. ChronOS 3.0 is a fairly major release, including a rebase to a new kernel, solidifying code which had to change with the move to the different kernel version, and many bug fixes and many new userspace features and improvements. | |
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** Remove dependence on QT | ** Remove dependence on QT | ||
** Add three timing methods: WCET, average-case, and timer-polling. | ** Add three timing methods: WCET, average-case, and timer-polling. | ||
| - | ** Add array-walk and linked list traversal workloads for memory-intensive testing. | + | ** Add array-walk (forwards, backwards, and random), linked list and BST traversal workloads for memory-intensive testing. |
** Improve accuracy of slope-generation mechanism. | ** Improve accuracy of slope-generation mechanism. | ||
| + | ** Add ability to configure groups of threads, which all share memory, and allow that working set size to be configurable via the taskset files. | ||
* Ported to ARM (fixed several overflow and type issues) | * Ported to ARM (fixed several overflow and type issues) | ||
Current revision as of 03:31, 21 March 2012
The changes made between Beta 2.8 and 3.0 follow. ChronOS 3.0 is a fairly major release, including a rebase to a new kernel, solidifying code which had to change with the move to the different kernel version, and many bug fixes and many new userspace features and improvements.
Kernel
- Moved from kernel version 2.6.33.9 to 3.0.24, and updated to the 3.0.24-rt42 version of the PREEMPT_RT patch.
- Fixed several bugs resulting from changes made between the 2.6.33.9 and 3.0.24 kernels.
- Allow processes to exit gracefully, even if inside a real-time segment.
- Ported to ARM architecture.
- Made MCS Lock implementation more generic. This will allow for easier porting of ChronOS to additional platforms. While the current 'generic' implementation is optimized for x86_64, it has been done in a way that encourages optimized architecture-specific versions.
- Added DEBUG_CHRONOS config option which adds several checks in the kernel which are useful for debugging (including warning when a ChronOS task blocks inside its RT segment, and when it exits prematurely).
- Converted all scheduler-managed lists to Linux's 'struct list_head' style lists, and added '#define' constants for referencing them by name.
- United the initialization of the /proc/chronos/ entries, so that directory is guaranteed to always be created, and made /proc/chronos/schedulers always available, even if scheduling statistics are not enabled.
Userspace
- Re-wrote entire sched_test_app for better modularity, portability, and expandability.
- Remove dependence on QT
- Add three timing methods: WCET, average-case, and timer-polling.
- Add array-walk (forwards, backwards, and random), linked list and BST traversal workloads for memory-intensive testing.
- Improve accuracy of slope-generation mechanism.
- Add ability to configure groups of threads, which all share memory, and allow that working set size to be configurable via the taskset files.
- Ported to ARM (fixed several overflow and type issues)
