As the cortex-M0 does not have a BASEPRI register, that means that interrupts can only be globally disabled through the PRIMASK register. But disabling through the PRIMASK register also means that most of the exceptions will be disabled including the SVC exception. The question is as an exclusive area needs interrupts to be globally disabled and inside this exclusive areas there is a usecase in which the SVCcall exception needs to be triggered, what would be the best way to go about doing just that? Are far as I have read , this is not architecturally possible. What can be done is to disable all the interrupts in the NVIC , but that would not be as efficient and can have other side effects and racing conditions.
By setting the PRIMASK register, which disables the interrupts globally but also disables all the exceptions uptil level 0. Leaving only the reset handler and the Hardfault exception enabled.
No I have to trigger a SVC call.
Yes, the length of the handler is pretty short. The problem is the SVC handler cannot be triggered when the interrupts are globally disabled on the M0 using the PRIMASK register.
Do you know of the top of your head how freertos handles exclusive areas on the M0?
If you know which interrupts are being used then you could replace the
taskENTER_CRITICAL() implementation with a macro that disables just
those interrupts, and likes enables them again using taskEXIT_CRITICAL()
if the number of interrupts is small enough that might be practical
but I don’t think disabling all interrupts would be fast enough.