Hello,

I'm trying to port FreeRTOS to the Cypress PSoC architecture and I'm having some problems with the scheduler.

For now I've just tested cooperative scheduling with one task plus the idle task (both have the idle priority.)

When the main task yields using portYield() or vTaskDelay(0), the scheduler alternates between the two tasks correctly. However, when the main task blocks itself using vTaskDelay(x), the scheduler never gives back the processor to the main task.

I checked that the idle task calls portYield() and the tick is incremented by the timer ISR so I don't understand why the main task is never woken.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks !

When using the co-operative scheduler (configUSE_PREEMPTION is set to 0 in FreeRTOSConfig.h) then the tick interrupt just needs to call vTaskIncrementTick() - and as you say your task has to periodically yield.

When using the pre-emptive scheduler the tick interrupt has to call first vTaskIncrementTick() and then second vTaskSwitchContext().

Is this being done?

Regards.

There was a bug in my implementation of vPortYield() which caused the GIE bit in the flags register to be cleared and therefore the tick interrupt was stopped.

Now co-operative scheduling works fine. However, pre-emptive scheduling doesn't work yet. I suspect there is another interrupt related problem.

Thanks.

Hello,

I managed to get pre-emptive scheduling to work with two tasks (plus the idle task) but it only works if both tasks have the tskIDLE_PRIORITY priority.

If I set the priority of one task to a priority higher than the idle priority then both tasks block and never wake up. Each task toggles a LED and then calls vTaskDelay().

configMAX_PRIORITIES is set to 4.

What could be the problem ?

Thanks.