Atomic Operations

Mentors:

Chris Johns

Students:

Deng Hengyi

Status:

​Gsoc2012 project

Introduction:

Candidate APIs / Implementations

• ​ConcurrencyKit: A solution for concurrency problems that includes atomic operations.
• ​FreeBSD Atomic Operations

Goal: To provide RTEMS with core services to solve synchronization problems on multicore platforms.

Requirements:

• Advanced C and assembly language programming
• Familiarity with RTEMS kernel software architecture
• Understand concurrency problems and solutions

Resources:

• ​https://www.rtems.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1455

Acknowledgements

• Who helped and did work?

Miscellaneous Sections

As the project progresses, you will need to add build instructions, etc and this page will evolve from a project description into a HOWTO.

ConcurrencyKit?

A candidate for this project is the ConcurrencyKit? (ck). Among other targets, ck works on the 32-bit x86 architecture, so a first step would be to try compiling ck with rtems for pc386 and run a sample application under QEMU. Once a sample application is working, the next step would be to get as much of the ck regression suite to run as possible. Beyond that are many possible directions. Potential students should ask on the mailing list and work with potential mentors to design a project that suits their abilities and goals.

FreeBSD Atomic

The FreeBSD Atomic Operations API defines a set of atomic operations that can then be used to build solutions to concurrency problems. The FreeBSD implementations support a lot of target architectures, so there is more freedom to pick a starting point.

References

• TBD

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