Thread IDs

[Stefan Kalkowski]

Hi Peter,

On Tuesday, 19. January 2010 06:30:22 Peter Nguyen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I've done some more messing around with genode (running on top of OKL4),
> more specifically creating some threads, and testing the functionality in
> general. I'm wondering how i can go about obtaining the thread's ID and
> printing it out. I've noticed that there are functions that are within the
> Thread class that can get me a Native_thread_id, but currently I can't seem
> to do much with it.
>
> Speaking of the native thread, is that type related to L4? Can I actually
> get a numerical value for that ID?

that's right, 'Native_thread_id' is the platform-specific thread 
representation, so in the OKL4-case it is 'L4_ThreadId_t' indeed. The 
kernel-specific thread id in Genode/OKL4 is a member of 'Thread_state' a 
thread property, that can be obtained via the cpu-session interface.

Although, it is recommended to use only generic Genode abstractions to stay 
platform-independent, if you've to deal with the kernel-api directly, you 
might use the cpu-session interface to gain some platform-specific thread 
data within 'Thread_state'. 

Here is some example code, printing all OKL4 thread IDs of one cpu-session:

  int i;
  Genode::Thread_state state;                                                          
  Genode::Thread_capability tcap = Genode::env()->cpu_session()->first();              
  while(tcap.valid())                                                                  
  {                                                                                    
     Genode::env()->cpu_session()->state(tcap, &state);                               
     PDBG("tid of thread no. %d is %lx", i, state.tid.raw);                           
     tcap = Genode::env()->cpu_session()->next(tcap);                                 
     ++i;                                                                             
  }     

Thereby, the order of the threads given by cpu-session's iterator isn't 
necessarily the order of the thread's creation time! 

Regards
Stefan

>
> Peter
>
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