Check if program counter is corrupted

valerie wrote on Sunday, December 09, 2018:

Hi to all
My project runs in IAR 8.32, with freertos 9, on STM32L152VE.
All I need is to check from interrupt that PC runs.
Clear, that I can see the program counter register and check if it was changed from previous view, but I think that it is wrong way, because occasionally it can be in tha same instruction.

So, I will be glad if you can advise me the right approach.

Thanks a lot for your time and consideration

rtel wrote on Sunday, December 09, 2018:

It is not clear what you are asking. If you are executing code in an
interrupt then the program counter is running otherwise you would not be
able to execute the code that you want to use to check if that is the case.

If you are asking for a way to check [from an interrupt] if tasks are
running, then that is a different question, and has many different
solutions. You could, for example, use a hardware watchdog timer that
would expire were tasks not to perform certain actions within a given
time. For example, most of the demo project that come with FreeRTOS use
what in the demos is called a ‘check task’. That mechanism works by
having all the other tasks maintain a cycle count. Each time a task
completes an iteration of their implementing function without any errors
then it increments its cycle count - if the task detects an error it
stops incrementing the count. The check task looks at each cycle count
to check it is still incrementing. If any of the counts stops it knows
one of the tasks has an error condition and can act as appropriate for
the application.

valerie wrote on Thursday, December 13, 2018:

Hi
Thanks a lot for the answer. I will use it.
And I also found CFSR register.