Hello,
I am using ARM Cortex-M85 with FreeRTOS v11.1.0.
In system, we are using 8 priority bits and configured configMAX_SYSCALL_INTERRUPT_PRIORITY to 1.
And it seems this raises below configASSERT in function xPortStartScheduler() of port.c file.
if( ulImplementedPrioBits == 8 )
{
/* When the hardware implements 8 priority bits, there is no way for
* the software to configure PRIGROUP to not have sub-priorities. As
* a result, the least significant bit is always used for sub-priority
* and there are 128 preemption priorities and 2 sub-priorities.
*
* This may cause some confusion in some cases - for example, if
* configMAX_SYSCALL_INTERRUPT_PRIORITY is set to 5, both 5 and 4
* priority interrupts will be masked in Critical Sections as those
* are at the same preemption priority. This may appear confusing as
* 4 is higher (numerically lower) priority than
* configMAX_SYSCALL_INTERRUPT_PRIORITY and therefore, should not
* have been masked. Instead, if we set configMAX_SYSCALL_INTERRUPT_PRIORITY
* to 4, this confusion does not happen and the behaviour remains the same.
*
* The following assert ensures that the sub-priority bit in the
* configMAX_SYSCALL_INTERRUPT_PRIORITY is clear to avoid the above mentioned
* confusion. */
configASSERT( ( configMAX_SYSCALL_INTERRUPT_PRIORITY & 0x1U ) == 0U );
ulMaxPRIGROUPValue = 0;
}
Does this mean if the number of implemented priority bits is 8 then we can only set the configMAX_SYSCALL_INTERRUPT_PRIORITY to an even number(2, 4, 6, …)?