guildernstern wrote on Thursday, January 10, 2013:
Hello all and thank you to whoever reads this.
I’m experiencing a problem with FreeRTOS port for STM32, here’s the background:
- STM32F100RB on custom hardware
- Keil compiler
- FreeRTOS V 6.1.1
- Standard FreeRTOS provided demos execute correctly on hardware
- application uses start up code from startup_stm32f10x_md_vl.s
- system task size is configured to 0x200 in startup_stm32f10x_md_vl.s
- application uses heap_1.c
- heap size is configured to 3 K bytes in FreeRTOSConfig.h
- application has 4 tasks:
Task_A, priority 3, 64 bytes stack
Task_d, priority 3, 32 bytes stack
Task_N, priority 2, 128 bytes stack
Task_T, priority 2, 64 bytes stack
- application has 4 interrupts:
system tick (FreeRTOS sys tick handler)
TIMER 2 (same for both capture and overflow)
UART 1
UART 2
- interrupt priorities:
#define configKERNEL_INTERRUPT_PRIORITY 255
#define configMAX_SYSCALL_INTERRUPT_PRIORITY 191
#define configLIBRARY_KERNEL_INTERRUPT_PRIORITY 15
- priority group:
NVIC_PriorityGroupConfig(NVIC_PriorityGroup_4);
- all interrupts have been configured as:
NVIC_InitStructure.NVIC_IRQChannelPreemptionPriority = configLIBRARY_KERNEL_INTERRUPT_PRIORITY;
NVIC_InitStructure.NVIC_IRQChannelSubPriority = 0;
- timer 2 is configured to trigger an interrupt on input capture events and counter overflows.
timer 2 is used to measure duration of pulses on input signal
- UART 1 is used to communicate with a radiomodem @ 57600 bps
- UART 2 is used to communicate with a GPS @ 4800 bps
- I2C is used to read data from MEMS sensors (no interrupt)
The problem:
Task switch halts when the frequency of the input capture signal is high (100 KHz ?).
Findings:
- Hard fault handler is not called
- Enabling configCHECK_FOR_STACK_OVERFLOW to 1 or 2 doesn’t catch any stack overflow
- When halting the debugger, the code is always in the I2C routines.
The code gets stuck in while (!I2C_CheckEvent()). This looks very similar to the problem mentioned here:
http://www.freertos.org/FreeRTOS_Support_Forum_Archive/October_2012/freertos_FreeRTOS_task_is_not_running_though_Timer_ISR_6042937.html
The I2C routines have been tested without FreeRTOS and work well.
- The system tick interrupt keeps working, xPortSysTickHandler is called.
- The running task is always the same, i.e. Task_A.
- The input capture interrupt does not nest.
This was tested with a global variable increased / decreased at every interrupt entry / exit.
- Nothing changes clearing the interrupt flags at the beginning or at the end of the interrupt routine.
- Nothing changes adding some instructions to read the interrupt register before extiting interrupt
(suspected issue with pipeline races exiting the interrupt).
Question:
Anybody has an idea what I could try ?
Thank you.