Part I. The eCos Kernel

Table of Contents

Kernel Overview — Overview of the eCos Kernel

SMP Support — Support Symmetric Multiprocessing Systems

Thread creation — Create a new thread

Thread information — Get basic thread information

Thread control — Control whether or not a thread is running

Thread termination — Allow threads to terminate

Thread priorities — Examine and manipulate thread priorities

Per-thread data — Manipulate per-thread data

Thread destructors — Call functions on thread termination

Exception handling — Handle processor exceptions

Counters — Count event occurrences

Clocks — Provide system clocks

Alarms — Run an alarm function when a number of events have occurred

Mutexes — Synchronization primitive

Condition Variables — Synchronization primitive

Semaphores — Synchronization primitive

Mail boxes — Synchronization primitive

Event Flags — Synchronization primitive

Spinlocks — Low-level Synchronization Primitive

Scheduler Control — Control the state of the scheduler

Interrupt Handling — Manage interrupt handlers

Kernel Real-time Characterization — Measure the performance of the eCos kernel

Kernel thread-aware debugging — Overview of eCos Kernel thread-aware debugging

Kernel and infrastructure instrumentation — Overview of eCos Kernel and Infrastructure instrumentation