The cause of the stack detection fault is because of the
level of nesting in the start up script. We need to
determine the worst case configuration and set the
bar there.
This fault occurred some 42 calls deep due to script
calling script (repeat).
The HW stack check requires as a margin of 204 bytes. That is
ISR HW stacking of CPU(8) FPU(18) registers and SW stacking of
CPU(11) and FPU(16) registers. Total CPU(19) registers is
68 bytes and the total FPU(34) registers is 136 bytes. On
a system with a separate ISR stack This only needs to be 104
so there is 100 bytes of headroom. But as coded the detection
will give a false positive detection and fault. This does not
mean that the stack will be corrupted.
Adjustments to that stack can have no effect due to rounding.
A stack size of 2608 and 2616 can yield the exact same size stack.
So even when the failure is due to a 4 byte overflow, it can take
greater than a 16 bytes increase to fix it. Because the final
stack size is calculated with an 8 byte alignment after a 4 byte
decrease. So 2624 becomes 2620 at runtime and will boot
with SYS_AUTOSTART=4001.
- see 1259864 Data corruption in a sequence of Write-Through stores and loads
- if we can be certain this sequence won't occur in PX4 then the d-cache will be re-enabled
Daniel Agar
David Sidrane