Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Allison, Stephanie" <[email protected]> · Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:47:49 -0800

Hi Rod,

The INIT (INAM) subroutine is called during the database record initialization part of iocInit:
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R3-14/12-docs/AppDevGuide/node8.html#SECTION00840000000000000000
The INAM routine is only meant to be used to allocate memory and any other resources or system initialization needed by the processing (SNAM) subroutine.  

The IOC is not yet ready for ANY record processing so your dbPutField fails.

Instead, you need to process during the initial processing part of iocInit (aka when PINI=YES processing is done) which comes a little later.  This processing will still be done before any EDM client connects to the waveform so should meet your requirement.  So move the dbPutField to the processing subroutine and set PINI=YES.  I assume SCAN=Passive so it'll only process once.

Stephanie Allison

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Rod Nussbaumer
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 9:27 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Access to records from subroutines during iocInit
> 
> Hi All.
> 
> I have a question/problem, which may simply be me trying to work outside
> the expected norms. It involves writing to records during IOC
> initialization. I will give a summary of the situation:
> 
> A subroutine record has on one of its inputs, a link to a waveform
> record. During the INIT subroutine, I call dbGetPdbAddrFromLink() to
> locate the waveform record, as well as call dbGetNelements() to find the
> size of the respective waveform record. This seems to work.
> My intention is to initialize the waveform record with data
> algorithmically created. I do this by creating an array, and calling
> dbPutField(), using the value saved from the earlier call to
> dbGetPdbAddrFromLink(). This results in the following:
> 
> A call to 'assert(dbLockIsInitialized)'
>      by thread '_main_' failed in ../dbLock.c line 239.
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> Calling epicsThreadSuspendSelf()
> 
> If I perform the same actions within the PROC subroutine of the
> subroutine record, it seems to work as I expected it to. So, if this is
> not a bug, is there a proper way to accomplish what I am attempting?
> There are no other records referencing or linked to the waveform record.
> Its data is used purely for visualization purposes in an EDM X-Y Graph.
> 
> Thanks for listening.
> 
> Rod Nussbaumer
> ISAC Controls, TRIUMF
> Vancouver, Canada.
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System