RTOS object view - Dynamically-created objects missing

Vasili,

Which device are you using?  And which version of XDCtools?

Thanks,
Scott

Hi Scott,

We are using XDCtools 3.25.05.94.

The code is for AM3359 device.

Regards,
Vasili

Thanks Vasili.  

I haven’t gotten a hold of an AM3359 device yet to test that with the versions of CCS and tooling that you are using.  

But, I ran another test (on an MSP430 that I have handy), with slightly later versions of the tooling, using the standard “Swi” example (which does several dynamic creations), and ROV shows those objects, as expected.

So… yes, this should work on AM3359, but I don’t know why it is not in your particular setup.  Hopefully whatever is causing your issue has been resolved in later tooling, but I still need to verify that…

Scott

Dear Scott,

After some poking around, I finally found the root of the problem. It reproduces only for objects created with XXX_construct() methods. Such objects are not shown in ROV, while the objects created with XXX_create() methods are shown fine. The Swi example you tried uses the later, that's why you did not see the problem.

Try replacing Task_create in the Swi example with:

    Task_Struct taskStruct;
    Task_construct(&taskStruct, tsk0Fxn, &taskParams, NULL);

and you will see the task won't be shown in the ROV.

Looking forward for your help on solving the issue.

Best,
Vasili

Hi Vasili,

OK, thanks for clarifying, this makes sense.   In previously released products ROV was unable to display constructed objects.  

The good news is that this support has been added, and will be available in a CCS v6 product update coming within the next few weeks.  There will be some conditions for ROV to be able to find constructed objects (e.g., they must be global, or declared static, and cannot be nested within other structures), but if it can find them, then ROV will now be able to display them.

Regards,
Scott

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the great news! I'm looking forward to the release.

Although I don't fully understand why the reason for such constraints... ROV has access to RAM, can't it just go over the Task module queues to find all the Tasks in the system? And when the pointer to the Task_Struct is found, why does it matter if it is a global object or nested within some other structure?

Best,
Vasili

ScottG said:

[...] In previously released products ROV was unable to display constructed objects.  

The good news is that this support has been added, and will be available in a CCS v6 product update coming within the next few weeks.  There will be some conditions for ROV to be able to find constructed objects (e.g., they must be global, or declared static, and cannot be nested within other structures), but if it can find them, then ROV will now be able to display them.

I'm using CCS 6.1.1 and TI-RTOS 2.13.01.09, and find that the Task_Structs used with Task_construct are only shown in ROV if they're global. Function- or file-scope statics don't appear in the task list (even though they're not nested within other structs). Is there any way around this limitation?