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Jeff Tenney 3bcdee89c6 Fix support for stepping maximum number of ticks
This commit fixes support for tickless implementations that call
vTaskStepTick() with the maximum number of allowed ticks to step.

vTaskStepTick()
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Function vTaskStepTick() provides a way for the tickless idle
implementation to account for ticks that elapse during tickless idle.
The maximum number of stepped ticks allowed is the number passed to
portSUPPRESS_TICKS_AND_SLEEP().  It is the number of ticks between
xTickCount and xNextTaskUnblockTime.

vTaskStepTick() is specifically intended for use with tickless idle,
so it always executes with the scheduler disabled.  For reference,
compare it with the more general function xTaskCatchUpTicks().

Without this Change
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Prior to this commit, if a task is supposed to wake at xTickCount ==
0xFFFFFFFF, then when tickless idle ends, function vTaskStepTick()
sets the tick to 0xFFFFFFFF but the task remains on the delayed list
because xTaskIncrementTick() does not execute.  One tick later,
xTaskIncrementTick() executes because it's time to increment xTickCount
to 0x00000000.  An assertion failure occurs in
taskSWITCH_DELAYED_LISTS() because the delayed task list is not
empty.  Other examples of valling vTaskStepTick() with the maximum
allowed number of ticks merely result in a task waking one tick late.

Default Tickless Implementations
--------------------------------
Note that the default tickless implementations never pass the maximum
allowed value to vTaskStepTick().  The default implementations use the
tick interrupt to finish the sleep and allow that one tick to be
counted normally via the tick ISR and xTaskIncrementTick().
2020-06-09 16:45:27 -07:00
.github Create pull_request_template.md 2020-03-17 13:11:11 -07:00
include Fix support for stepping maximum number of ticks 2020-06-09 16:45:27 -07:00
portable Removing vPortEndScheduler() implementation, since it's not implemented according to spec. (#61) 2020-05-27 14:08:44 -07:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Added CONTRIBUTING (#18) 2020-02-25 16:22:57 -08:00
croutine.c Updates vCoRoutineSchedule() so it returns without doing anything if if the co-routine internal data structures have not been initialised. The internal data structures are initialised when the first co-routine is created. 2020-02-26 10:45:32 -08:00
event_groups.c version bump to v10.3.1 (#16) 2020-02-18 22:03:54 -08:00
GitHub-FreeRTOS-Kernel-Home.url Adding url to direct users to FreeRTOS-Kernel github page. (#32) 2020-03-17 19:30:19 -07:00
History.txt Updated History.txt for task notification array change (#65) 2020-05-28 09:55:17 -07:00
LICENSE.md Bring license in sync with FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS. (#20) 2020-02-27 14:33:46 -08:00
list.c version bump to v10.3.1 (#16) 2020-02-18 22:03:54 -08:00
queue.c Renamed trace point in prvNotifyQueueSetContainer() so it isn't a d… (#47) 2020-06-02 10:50:02 -07:00
Quick_Start_Guide.url Add quick start guide. 2013-04-30 19:37:00 +00:00
README.md Replacing readme.txt with README.md. (#11) 2020-02-16 13:18:58 -08:00
SECURITY.md Create SECURITY.md 2020-03-17 13:08:50 -07:00
stream_buffer.c version bump to v10.3.1 (#16) 2020-02-18 22:03:54 -08:00
tasks.c Fix support for stepping maximum number of ticks 2020-06-09 16:45:27 -07:00
timers.c version bump to v10.3.1 (#16) 2020-02-18 22:03:54 -08:00

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  • The root of this repository contains the three files that are common to every port - list.c, queue.c and tasks.c. The kernel is contained within these three files. croutine.c implements the optional co-routine functionality - which is normally only used on very memory limited systems.

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