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OSEK / AUTOSAR: CURRENTTASK and CURRENTISR are given as pointers

18-Dec-2022

All OSEK AUTOSAR implementations include structures that describe current state of the OS (current task, current ISR...). This structure is place in a fixed memory location and it's address needs to be known in advance in order to trace it. ORTI generators often specify a pointer to this structure, which can easily be followed by OS awareness plugins, but unfortunately can not be directly traced. An example of such ORTI configuration would be:

RUNNINGTASK[1] = "OS_kernel_ptr[1]->taskCurrent";
RUNNINGTASK[2] = "OS_kernel_ptr[2]->taskCurrent";
RUNNINGISR2[1] = "OS_kernel_ptr[1]->isrCurrent";
RUNNINGISR2[2] = "OS_kernel_ptr[2]->isrCurrent";

In this case the RUNNINGTASK/RUNNINGISR are given as pointers, which can not be resolved by the trace engine and therefore can not be used for OS signaling.


Possible solution:  

You need to find the symbol (or memory location) that this pointer points to:

1.Start the application and run until the point where the OS is initialized.

2. Pay attention to the address the RUNNINGTASK/RUNNINGISR pointer points to by inspecting the correlating variable in the watch window (e.g. OS_kernel_ptr[1]->taskCurrent).  In our case this was 0x51800840.

3. Open the View menu / Symbol Browser / Variables.

4. Sort the variables by address.

5. Search for the symbol (structure) that is the closest match to the address you found.

6. Expand the structure with a double-click and look for the element with the address you found earlier.


7. Use this variable to replacethe pointer which was initially specified as RUNNINGTASK/RUNNINGISR.  From above example that would be:

    RUNNINGTASK[1] = "(OS_kernelData_core1).taskCurrent";
    RUNNINGTASK[2] = "(OS_kernelData_core2).taskCurrent";
    RUNNINGISR2[1] = "(OS_kernelData_core1).isrCurrent";
    RUNNINGISR2[2] = "(OS_kernelData_core2).isrCurrent";

8. Save the changes to the ORTI file. 

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