Thread: Task creations

  1. 01-18-2022 #1
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    Task creations

    I need a general idea how to create tasks in C programming for real time operating system which supports preemptive priority based scheduling, the system is configured to generate 1ms time slice.

    My plan is, I should have function in the file tasks.c whose purpose is to create a task. In the main. c file I need to write a section of code that calls a function in task.c to create a task. all tasks must be created with some default priorities. Once the task has been created it should be run.

    If I have missed any information please feel free to ask.

    do you have any idea how you would do this?
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    You mean you got nothing from your previous threads?
    How do you design scheduler ?
    Top design- real time operating system
    How to write code for round robin scheduling
    Free rtos code example 1
    Portable cooperative scheduling
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    Quote Originally Posted by Salem View Post
    You mean you got nothing from your previous threads?
    How do you design scheduler ?
    Top design- real time operating system
    How to write code for round robin scheduling
    Free rtos code example 1
    Portable cooperative scheduling
    No doubt you helped me in my previous threads to understand the scheduling. The programming structure of FreeRTOS is very difficult and it is very difficult to understand.


    The question I asked, do you have any idea about this, how can this be done?

    It will be helpful if you can provide pepseudo code for basic idea only
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    It's all in the previous threads.
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    I have seen all the threads many times but I have never seen that we have discussed this topic. Please don't compare this question with FreeRTOS. Its architecture is complex to understand the concept
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    Why do you want to re-invent the wheel?
    You say you have an RTOS that has task management system; why does that system not fit your needs?

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    As I mentioned earlier, the architecture of FreeRTOS is very complex, which I do not understand at all.

    My only question here is how to create a function in which the task can be created
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    Sure, why not - let's see how far you can run with this.

    Your very basic task control block needs a few things
    - a task state, see FreeRTOS task states and state transitions described for ideas.
    - a stack
    - a function to call
    - a priority

    Code:
    typedef enum {
  TS_INIT,
  TS_READY,  // just waiting for the CPU
  TS_RUNNING,  // actively running
  TS_BLOCKED, // waiting for something other than the CPU (like sleeping) 
} taskState_t;

typedef struct {
  unsigned long stack[256];
  unsigned long *sp;
  taskState_t state;
  int priority;
  void (*entrypoint)(void);
} taskTcb_t;
taskTcb_t tasks[3];
int numTasks = 0;
int currentTask;

void makeTask(void (*fn)(void), int prio) {
  tasks[numTasks].sp = &tasks[numTasks].stack[255];
  tasks[numTasks].state = TS_INIT;
  tasks[numTasks].priority = prio;
  tasks[numTasks].entrypoint = fn;
  numTasks++;
}
void resumeTask(int taskId) {  // called from clock ISR
  // asm to move tasks[taskId].sp to stack pointer
  
}
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