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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:43:33 -0600

On the MVME6100 board, the only way to trap VME bus errors is with an
interrupt vector since there is no Machine Check Exception generated by
the Tempe chip. The following code is probably the best we can do to
get a bus error to suspend the relevent task (it isn't guaranteed that
we'll actually catch the right task and woe betide you if an ISR causes
a bus error, although this does seem to work for the common cases in my
tests).
I'm sending this message directly to the tech-talk archive without
copying it to tech-talk, in order to avoid a message storm about the
subject.
The Bus Error handling changes are all in the sysTempeInt.c file. First
you need to add a line to the includes section near the top:
#include "excLib.h"

Then in sysTempeIntInit() add this code:
 intConnect (INUM_TO_IVEC (TEMPE_INT_NUM_VERR), sysTempeBusErrIntr, 0);
    /* Clear any pending VEAT errors, enable the interrupt */
    TEMPE_WRITE32_PUSH (TEMPE_REG_BASE, TEMPE_VEAT, TEMPE_VEAT_VESCL_MASK);
    intEnable (TEMPE_INT_NUM_VERR);

Finally add these two routines, preferably just above sysTempeIntInit()
so you don't have to declare them higher up:
/******************************************************************************

*
* tempeBusErrShow - Display any pending VME exceptions

*

* This routine is called by excTask, not directly by the ISR. It is

* responsible for displaying the contents of the VEAT and VEAL registers

* that are passed to it as arguments
*

* RETURNS: NA

*/
LOCAL void tempeBusErrShow
    (
    int tid,
    UINT32 veat,
    UINT32 veal
    )
    {
    int am = (veat & TEMPE_VEAT_AM_MASK) >> TEMPE_VEAT_AM_BIT;
    printf("\nVME Bus Error %sing ",
           (veat & TEMPE_VEAT_WRITE_MASK) ? "writ" : "read");
    switch (am)
        {
        case VME_AM_EXT_SUP_PGM:
        case VME_AM_EXT_USR_PGM:
        case VME_AM_EXT_SUP_DATA:
        case VME_AM_EXT_USR_DATA:
            printf("A32: 0x%8.8x", veal);
            break;
        case VME_AM_STD_SUP_PGM:
        case VME_AM_STD_USR_PGM:
        case VME_AM_STD_SUP_DATA:
        case VME_AM_STD_USR_DATA:
            printf("A24: 0x%6.6x", veal & 0x00ffffff);
            break;
        case VME_AM_SUP_SHORT_IO:
        case VME_AM_USR_SHORT_IO:
            printf("A16: 0x%4.4x", veal & 0x0000ffff);
            break;
 default:

printf("AM=0x%2.2x: %#x", am, veal);

break;

}

printf("\nTask 0x%x \"%s\" was suspended\n", tid, taskName(tid));

if (veat & TEMPE_VEAT_VEOF_MASK)

{

printf("VME exception overflow, later details lost.\n");

}

}
/******************************************************************************
*
* sysTempeBusErrIntr - Handle VME Bus Error interrupt
*
* This routine is invoked when the Tempe chip notices a VMEbus Exception
* and sets the VES bit in the VEAT register.
*
* RETURNS: NA
*/
void sysTempeBusErrIntr(int dummy) {
    int tid = taskIdSelf();
    UINT32 base = TEMPE_REG_BASE;
    UINT32 veat = TEMPE_READ32 (base, TEMPE_VEAT);
    UINT32 veal = TEMPE_READ32 (base, TEMPE_VEAL);
 TEMPE_WRITE32_PUSH (base, TEMPE_VEAT, TEMPE_VEAT_VESCL_MASK);
 excJobAdd(tempeBusErrShow, tid, veat, veal, 4, 5, 6);
    /*
     * When called from this ISR, the task ID returned by taskIdSelf()
     * should be that of the task that the interrupt preempted and hence
     * that of whatever caused the Bus Error to occur.  Unfortunately
     * however, that will not be the case if the Bus Error occurs in
     * another ISR, or if a higher priority ISR was entered first that
     * caused a task switch to occur.  The chances of that are much
     * higher if the bus error occurs while interrupts are disabled.
     * Thus this approach is unreliable, but the best we can do...
     */
    taskSuspend(tid); /* suspend *after* queueing the msg, just in case */
}

- Andrew
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