ChibiOS Free Embedded RTOS

Posted: **Sun Aug 02, 2015 3:56 am**

Hi,
I'm currently porting some old ChibiOS 2.x code to 3.x with NIL to to uC flash size restrictions.

In nil.c, the standard event functions, most notably chEvtSignalI are defined for the NIL kernel.
However, there is no chThdCreateStatic() that returns a thread_t* in NIL as threads are handled via the thread table.

Therefore, my question is how to properly use chEventSignalI in NIL. My current code is:

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void uartTXend2Callback(UARTDriver *uartp) {
  (void)uartp;
  palClearPad(GPIOA, GPIOA_RS485_DE);
  osalSysLockFromISR();
  chEvtSignalI(&nil.threads[0], EVENT_UART_TX_FINISHED);
  chSchRescheduleS(); //Maybe unneccessary
  osalSysUnlockFromISR();
}

Before using uartSend in the thread code, I use

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chEvtWaitAnyTimeout(EVENT_UART_TX_FINISHED, TIME_INFINITE)

Using this method, the thread never wakes up. I am not sure if this is related to some other part of my source code, but directly using the thread table (I'm using only one thread besides main) via &nil.threads[0] seems somewhat strange to me.

Best regards, Uli

Posted: **Sun Aug 02, 2015 7:20 am**

Hi,

Accessing the table is fine, probably having a macro for that would be useful.

Note that you MUST NOT call S-class functions from ISRs, so that call is not just unnecessary, it is forbidden.

Giovanni

Posted: **Tue Aug 11, 2015 1:40 am**

I don't know if it counts as the right way to do it, but I have it working with a global thread pointer and then assigning the result of chThdGetSelfX() to that in the listener.

Posted: **Tue Aug 11, 2015 1:46 am**

@mikenick42: Nice idea ;-)

Besides being a bit ugly, &nil.threads[0] works well. Maybe we should define a function for that (code has not been checked, might contain errors)?

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static inline thread_t* nilGetThreadByIndex(int n) {
    osalDbgCheck(n < NIL_CFG_NUM_THREADS && n > 0);
    return &nil.threads[n];
}

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