Cannot allocate 32 KB on heap

Kernel
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I am trying to solve an issue and I need to remove a huge chunk of data over to the heap.
The pvPortMalloc() returns 0, when trying to do allocate the memory, although the configTOTAL_HEAP_SIZE macro is set to 180120 .

I am using heap4.c . What could be the issue here?

(the task itself has a stack set to 1024, however changing it even to 33792 doesn’t help)

My code follows.

The function:

uint32_t* copyBlockIntoRAM(uint32_t* source_addr, uint32_t size)
{
	uint32_t* malloc_rtr;
	malloc_rtr = (uint32_t*) pvPortMalloc(size);
	configASSERT(malloc_rtr);

	memcpy( malloc_rtr, source_addr, size);

	return malloc_rtr;
}

(...)

block_in_RAM = copyBlockIntoRAM((uint32_t*)BLOCK_START_ADDRS, 32768);

(...)

The task, that runs the function:

xTaskCreate(vfileSystemTask, "vfileSystemTask", 1024U, NULL, 3, NULL); /

The freeRTOSConfig.h

#define configTOTAL_HEAP_SIZE                    ( ( size_t ) 180120

(I know this operation isn’t optimal for a RTOS, however I need to check one thing, and I will remove this code once I figure out what is going on)

2

Stepping through the pvPortMalloc() code in the debugger will show you why it’s returning NULL - it’s not a very big function.