Problem allocation on LPC1788 with FreeRTOS+TCP

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Hi,

I was using the FreeRTOS+TCP using heap_5 on an external RAM, and was working well.
But now in other project i need to use without external RAM. The LPC1788 has two blocks of memory, one with 64KB, and other 32KB for peripherals (USB, Ethernet, LCD, etc). When i work using heap on RAM_32, this works, but don’t have space enough, because i need to allocate space for USB and Ethernet, but when i try use heap for freertos on RAM_64 doesn’t work.

Why on external RAM and RAM_32 works, and RAM_64 doesn’t work?
What i do to solve this problem?

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Hello @ulysses,

Thanks for reaching out, can you please share some details about you hardware / board and what error messages are you seeing ?

Thanks!

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Do you need to enable RAM_64 first?
Do you have to place the vector table in RAM_32 even if everything else is in RAM_64?

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Hi @abhidixi ,

This hardware use a board from Embedded Artists, and our base board. The error that occours is don’t resolve the DHCP, don’t connect to local network on my router.

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Hi @rtel,

I think doesn’t matter, because i try use RAM_32 and allocate the freertos on RAM_64, but don’t work. The only problem on RAM_32 i have is the space, because i need majority for USB and Ethernet.

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Hi,

i found what occours, in this line lPacketCount = ( BaseType_t ) listCURRENT_LIST_LENGTH( &( pxSocket->u.xUDP.xWaitingPacketsList ) ); on function FreeRTOS_recvfrom not return never a valid value for lPacketCount.

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Can you step into the function to see why that is? Also, is this the first time the failing function is called, or does it pass a few times first?

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Into this function the pxList->uxNumberOfItems return the value 0, i don’t understand why.

When don’t work, stay in a infinit loop, calling this function. But when works, using external ram or RAM_32, the first time with pass in this part with error, but the next pass with success.

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Could it be variables stored in the larger RAM are not being initialised correctly in the C startup code? I think this issue is to do with the linker or chip configuration rather than FreeRTOS itself.

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Hi,

I don’t find anything to solve this problem about RAM. So i share my code with you for try solve this.

https://bitbucket.org/ulyssesfonseca/teste_freertos

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Hi,

I think the problem is related with send, because i open the wireshark to analyze, and on external RAM and RAM_32 the board sends the package DHCP, and on RAM_64 didn’t.

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@ulysses : I’m afraid I don’t know much of your MCU.
Are you sure what RAM areas are implemented?
Have you tested the different RAM areas?
Are there areas that can not be used for DMA?

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Hi @htibosch,

Are you sure what RAM areas are implemented?
Have you tested the different RAM areas?

Yes, all this RAM areas i use now in other projects.

Are there areas that can not be used for DMA?

The RAM_64 and RAM_32 are internal of microcontroller, and SDRAM is an external RAM that uses DMA.