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reyalp

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Re: AdditionAgentRAM - an unused piece of memory?

« Reply #30 on: 29 / November / 2013, 21:33:25 »

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In trunk changeset 3253 I replaced with old suba size_total and alloc_total with fields equivalent to the dryos meminfo values, and also added allocated_count.

The old suba values were not very meaningful, and were not used elsewhere in the suba code. alloc_total, free_total and size_total were counters over the lifetime of the suba pool, so for example alloc_total represented the total number of bytes ever allocated, regardless of whether they were freed.

Aside from possibly providing useful diagnostics, this makes the "combined" meminfo fields more meaningful.

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srsa_4c

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Re: AdditionAgentRAM - an unused piece of memory?

« Reply #31 on: 28 / December / 2016, 12:14:38 »

Issue:

Executing a Canon Basic script can cause memory corruption and camera crash when CHDK is loaded.

Affected cameras:

Ports that use the memory area named "AdditionAgentRAM" (short: ARAM).
To find out whether a particular port is affected, see whether OPT_ARAM_MALLOC is defined in the port's makefile.inc file (platform/camera/makefile.inc or platform/camera/sub/xxx/makefile.inc).
Alternatively, use the "Module Inspector" utility in the CHDK menu: Miscellaneous stuff -> Modules -> Module Inspector, and look for a line starting with "ARAM:".

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This "unused piece of memory" caused me a bit of a nasty surprise*. While trying to find out why the new port I'm working on dies with various signs of memory corruption, I accidentally found out that Canon Basic does use the AdditionAgent area.
On this particular model (D6, r57), ARAM between +0x10000 and +0x1ef8f is erased and apparently used by CBasic.
It could be that earlier camera generations are also affected...

*Of course, I was loading the CHDK core to ARAM and wanted to run a memory dumper CBasic script. Camera was stable until I pressed SET to run the script. Took me several days to recognize...

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post restructured to provide better explanation for readers redirected from wikia

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reyalp

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Re: AdditionAgentRAM - an unused piece of memory?

« Reply #32 on: 28 / December / 2016, 17:58:13 »

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It could be that earlier camera generations are also affected...

Seems likely. On D10 for example, the LoadScript eventproc goes calls the same function that the ARAM addresss comes from.

I guess this only happens when a script is run, not just from having the script disk flag and extend.m present. Still, perhaps a good reason not to enable ARAM on cameras that don't otherwise need it (which I have been doing up to now)

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