runtime/xenomai.py
author Edouard Tisserant
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:13:34 +0200
changeset 2322 7ce4e5cf6339
parent 2015 4eeefc6a13fd
child 3750 f62625418bff
permissions -rw-r--r--
Added runtime/spawn_subprocess.py. Force use posix spawn instead of fork, with API similar to subprocess. Using fork in runtime is incompatible with Xenomai, because memory is locked and this can lead to out of memory error.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# See COPYING.Runtime file for copyrights details.
#

from __future__ import absolute_import
from ctypes import CDLL, RTLD_GLOBAL, pointer, c_int, POINTER, c_char, create_string_buffer


def TryPreloadXenomai():
    """
    Xenomai 3 (at least for version <= 3.0.6) do not handle properly dlclose
    of shared objects whose dlopen did trigger xenomai_init.
    As a workaround, this pre-loads xenomai libraries that need to be
    initialized and call xenomai_init once for all.

    Xenomai auto init of libs MUST be disabled (see --auto-init-solib in xeno-config)
    """
    try:
        for name in ["cobalt", "modechk", "copperplate", "alchemy"]:
            globals()[name] = CDLL("lib"+name+".so", mode=RTLD_GLOBAL)
        cobalt.xenomai_init(pointer(c_int(0)), pointer((POINTER(c_char)*2)(create_string_buffer("prog_name"), None)))
    except Exception:
        pass