Re: [Freemint-discuss] XaAES often crashes during boot after a reboot

[Jo E. S. <jo...@on...>]

Has anybody attempted/been able to reproduce this problem?

Jo Even

On Tue, 2025-01-21 at 20:19 +0000, Jo Even Skarstein via Freemint-
discuss wrote:
> Good tips! I changed the program to set the free memory to 0x55, and
> if I run this program before mint.prg I can reproduce the crash
> almost every time on both the Milan and Falcon/CT60. Different
> network hardware, different drivers, same snapshot. Crashes somewhere
> between route (in mint.cnf) and starting the desktop.
> 
> Also, it does not happen if I don't run route. ifconfig alone does
> not cause the crash, ifconfig+route does.
> 
> I've attached the test program (no I haven't, the mail was rejected
> because of the .zip attachment. Get it here:
> https://atari.joska.no/download/memset.zip). It would be very
> interesting if you could reproduce this on your Falcon.
> 
> --------------->8------------------
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <tos.h>
> 
> #define VALUE 0x55
> 
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>    long s, total = 0;
> 
>     printf("Setting all available memory to 0x%02x:\n", VALUE);
> 
>     printf("\nST-RAM:\n");
>     while ((s = (long) Mxalloc(-1L, 0)) > 0)
>     {
>         char *m = Mxalloc(s, 0);
>         printf("0x%08p (%ld Kb)\n", m, s / 1024L);
>         memset(m, VALUE, s);
>         total += s;
>     }
> 
>     printf("\nFast-RAM:\n");
>     while ((s = (long) Mxalloc(-1L, 1)) > 0)
>     {
>         char *m = Mxalloc(s, 1);
>         printf("0x%08p (%ld Kb)\n", m, s / 1024L);
>         memset(m, VALUE, s);
>         total += s;
>     }
> 
>     printf("\n%ld Kb set.\n\n", total / 1024L);
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> --------------8<-----------------
> 
> It must be run before mint.prg, if I run it from mint.cnf before
> ifconfig/route it doesn't make a difference. Same with clearing the
> RAM instead - do it before mint.prg and the crash never happens. So
> it looks like the kernel assumes that atleast one byte of the RAM it
> allocates is zeroed.
> 
> I run ifconfig/route as the last thing before GEM= in mint.cnf.
> GlueSTiK is started immediately before. It doesn't matter if GlueSTiK
> is started or not.
> 
> Jo Even
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:04:05 +0100, "Miro Kropáček"
> <mir...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> > > - since your CT60 scenario is far less reproducible: what about
> > > filling RAM
> > > with 0xFF instead of 0x00? Does it lead to more reliable crashes?
> > > (just to
> > > be on the safe side, check on Milan before, too - the 0xFF may be
> > > one of
> > > those "safe" ones)
> > > 
> > > - do not run both ifconfig and route, just one of them and
> > > alternatively,
> > > do not configure the given network interface, just the loopback
> > > one
>  
> 
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