Interrupts on Stellaris Launchpad LM4F

Kernel
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bremans wrote on Wednesday, January 22, 2014:

Hi,

I’m using the freertos-demo for stellaris launchpad lm4f and I’m trying to activate a task when an interrupt occurs.

I’ve been testing it on two different scenarios; when I press the left button the xSemaphoreGiveFromISR works and also the task responds but when I use this in the interrupthandler (GPIOPortDIntHandler) then xSemaphoreGiveFromISR works but the task isn’t responding and the system freezes after the amount of counts has reached its max? Could it be that the interrupts are coming too fast? I already set the xSemaphore to a counting semaphore…

I’m also using xSemaphoreTake because the xSemaphoreTakeFromISR is not available in this version.

Here is the code:

#define DHTTASKSTACKSIZE 128
#define DHTINTTASKSTACKSIZE 128
extern xQueueHandle g_pLEDQueue;
extern xSemaphoreHandle g_pUARTSemaphore;
extern xSemaphoreHandle xCountingSemaphore;

static
void DHT_Task(void *pvParameters){

unsigned char cMessage;

portTickType ulWakeTime;
unsigned long ulLEDToggleDelay;

ulLEDToggleDelay = 250;

ulWakeTime = xTaskGetTickCount();

while(1)
{
        if(xQueueReceive(g_pLEDQueue, &cMessage, 0) == pdPASS)
        {
            if(cMessage == LEFT_BUTTON)
            {
            	xSemaphoreGiveFromISR(xCountingSemaphore, NULL);
            }

        }

        vTaskDelayUntil(&ulWakeTime, (ulLEDToggleDelay) / portTICK_RATE_MS);
    }

}

void GPIOPortDIntHandler(void){
if(xSemaphoreGiveFromISR(xCountingSemaphore, NULL)){
UARTprintf("|");
}
}

void DHT_IntHandler(void *pvParameters){
while(1){
if(xSemaphoreTake(xCountingSemaphore, portMAX_DELAY)){
UARTprintf(".");
}
}
}

//DHT Task Initialisation
unsigned long
DHTTaskInit(void)
{
if(xTaskCreate(DHT_Task, (signed portCHAR *)“DHT”, DHTTASKSTACKSIZE, NULL, tskIDLE_PRIORITY + PRIORITY_DHT_TASK, NULL) != pdTRUE)
{
return(1);
}

if(xTaskCreate(DHT_IntHandler,(signed portCHAR *)"DHT_INT", DHTINTTASKSTACKSIZE, NULL, tskIDLE_PRIORITY + PRIORITY_DHT_INT_TASK, NULL) != pdTRUE){return(1);};

//
// Success.
//
return(0);

}

With kind regards,

Bart

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rtel wrote on Wednesday, January 22, 2014:

freertos-demo for stellaris launchpad lm4f

I’m not familiar with that demo - is it something TI distribute, or did you make it yourself.

Could it be that the interrupts are coming too fast?

From a button push? I don’t understand the scenario as I don’t know the demo.

I’m also using xSemaphoreTake because the xSemaphoreTakeFromISR is not available in this version.

Really? You must be using an old version. If you are inside an ISR then definitely don’t use xSemaphoreTake().

It might be that looking through the help sub-page of the FAQ will highlight something to you - but as you are using an old version of FreeRTOS most of the newer features put in to catch interrupt misconfigurations on Cortex-M chips won’t be available to you.

Regards.