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| 1 | + Microsoft's Azure RTOS ThreadX for Cortex-M55 |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | + Using the AC6 Tools in Keil uVision |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +1. Import the ThreadX Projects |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +In order to build the ThreadX library and the ThreadX demonstration, first open |
| 8 | +the AzureRTOS.uvmpw workspace (located in the "example_build" directory) |
| 9 | +into Keil. |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +2. Building the ThreadX run-time Library |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +Building the ThreadX library is easy; simply set the ThreadX_Library project |
| 15 | +as active, then then build the library. You should now observe the compilation |
| 16 | +and assembly of the ThreadX library. This project build produces the ThreadX |
| 17 | +library file ThreadX_Library.lib. |
| 18 | +Files tx_thread_stack_error_handler.c and tx_thread_stack_error_notify.c |
| 19 | +replace the common files of the same name. |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +3. Demonstration System |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +The ThreadX demonstration is designed to execute under the Keil debugger on the |
| 24 | +FVP_MPS2_Cortex-M55_MDK simulator. |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +Building the demonstration is easy; simply select the "Batch Build" button. |
| 27 | +You should now observe the compilation and assembly of the ThreadX demonstration of |
| 28 | +both the demo_secure_zone and demo_threadx_non-secure_zone projects. |
| 29 | +Then click the Start/Stop Debug Session button to start the simulator and begin debugging. |
| 30 | +You are now ready to execute the ThreadX demonstration. |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +4. System Initialization |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +The entry point in ThreadX for the Cortex-M55 using AC6 tools uses the standard AC6 |
| 36 | +Cortex-M55 reset sequence. From the reset vector the C runtime will be initialized. |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +The ThreadX tx_initialize_low_level.s file is responsible for setting up |
| 39 | +various system data structures, the vector area, and a periodic timer interrupt |
| 40 | +source. |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +In addition, _tx_initialize_low_level determines the first available |
| 43 | +address for use by the application, which is supplied as the sole input |
| 44 | +parameter to your application definition function, tx_application_define. |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +5. Register Usage and Stack Frames |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +The following defines the saved context stack frames for context switches |
| 50 | +that occur as a result of interrupt handling or from thread-level API calls. |
| 51 | +All suspended threads have the same stack frame in the Cortex-M55 version of |
| 52 | +ThreadX. The top of the suspended thread's stack is pointed to by |
| 53 | +tx_thread_stack_ptr in the associated thread control block TX_THREAD. |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +Non-FPU Stack Frame: |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | + Stack Offset Stack Contents |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | + 0x00 LR Interrupted LR (LR at time of PENDSV) |
| 60 | + 0x04 r4 Software stacked GP registers |
| 61 | + 0x08 r5 |
| 62 | + 0x0C r6 |
| 63 | + 0x10 r7 |
| 64 | + 0x14 r8 |
| 65 | + 0x18 r9 |
| 66 | + 0x1C r10 |
| 67 | + 0x20 r11 |
| 68 | + 0x24 r0 Hardware stacked registers |
| 69 | + 0x28 r1 |
| 70 | + 0x2C r2 |
| 71 | + 0x30 r3 |
| 72 | + 0x34 r12 |
| 73 | + 0x38 lr |
| 74 | + 0x3C pc |
| 75 | + 0x40 xPSR |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +FPU Stack Frame (only interrupted thread with FPU enabled): |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | + Stack Offset Stack Contents |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | + 0x00 LR Interrupted LR (LR at time of PENDSV) |
| 82 | + 0x04 s16 Software stacked FPU registers |
| 83 | + 0x08 s17 |
| 84 | + 0x0C s18 |
| 85 | + 0x10 s19 |
| 86 | + 0x14 s20 |
| 87 | + 0x18 s21 |
| 88 | + 0x1C s22 |
| 89 | + 0x20 s23 |
| 90 | + 0x24 s24 |
| 91 | + 0x28 s25 |
| 92 | + 0x2C s26 |
| 93 | + 0x30 s27 |
| 94 | + 0x34 s28 |
| 95 | + 0x38 s29 |
| 96 | + 0x3C s30 |
| 97 | + 0x40 s31 |
| 98 | + 0x44 r4 Software stacked registers |
| 99 | + 0x48 r5 |
| 100 | + 0x4C r6 |
| 101 | + 0x50 r7 |
| 102 | + 0x54 r8 |
| 103 | + 0x58 r9 |
| 104 | + 0x5C r10 |
| 105 | + 0x60 r11 |
| 106 | + 0x64 r0 Hardware stacked registers |
| 107 | + 0x68 r1 |
| 108 | + 0x6C r2 |
| 109 | + 0x70 r3 |
| 110 | + 0x74 r12 |
| 111 | + 0x78 lr |
| 112 | + 0x7C pc |
| 113 | + 0x80 xPSR |
| 114 | + 0x84 s0 Hardware stacked FPU registers |
| 115 | + 0x88 s1 |
| 116 | + 0x8C s2 |
| 117 | + 0x90 s3 |
| 118 | + 0x94 s4 |
| 119 | + 0x98 s5 |
| 120 | + 0x9C s6 |
| 121 | + 0xA0 s7 |
| 122 | + 0xA4 s8 |
| 123 | + 0xA8 s9 |
| 124 | + 0xAC s10 |
| 125 | + 0xB0 s11 |
| 126 | + 0xB4 s12 |
| 127 | + 0xB8 s13 |
| 128 | + 0xBC s14 |
| 129 | + 0xC0 s15 |
| 130 | + 0xC4 fpscr |
| 131 | + |
| 132 | + |
| 133 | +6. Improving Performance |
| 134 | + |
| 135 | +To make ThreadX and the application(s) run faster, you can enable |
| 136 | +all compiler optimizations. |
| 137 | + |
| 138 | +In addition, you can eliminate the ThreadX basic API error checking by |
| 139 | +compiling your application code with the symbol TX_DISABLE_ERROR_CHECKING |
| 140 | +defined. |
| 141 | + |
| 142 | + |
| 143 | +7. Interrupt Handling |
| 144 | + |
| 145 | +ThreadX provides complete and high-performance interrupt handling for Cortex-M55 |
| 146 | +targets. There are a certain set of requirements that are defined in the |
| 147 | +following sub-sections: |
| 148 | + |
| 149 | + |
| 150 | +7.1 Vector Area |
| 151 | + |
| 152 | +The Cortex-M55 vectors start at the label __Vectors or similar. The application may modify |
| 153 | +the vector area according to its needs. There is code in tx_initialize_low_level() that will |
| 154 | +configure the vector base register. |
| 155 | + |
| 156 | + |
| 157 | +7.2 Managed Interrupts |
| 158 | + |
| 159 | +ISRs can be written completely in C (or assembly language) without any calls to |
| 160 | +_tx_thread_context_save or _tx_thread_context_restore. These ISRs are allowed access to the |
| 161 | +ThreadX API that is available to ISRs. |
| 162 | + |
| 163 | +ISRs written in C will take the form (where "your_C_isr" is an entry in the vector table): |
| 164 | + |
| 165 | +void your_C_isr(void) |
| 166 | +{ |
| 167 | + |
| 168 | + /* ISR processing goes here, including any needed function calls. */ |
| 169 | +} |
| 170 | + |
| 171 | +ISRs written in assembly language will take the form: |
| 172 | + |
| 173 | + |
| 174 | + .global your_assembly_isr |
| 175 | + .thumb_func |
| 176 | +your_assembly_isr: |
| 177 | +; VOID your_assembly_isr(VOID) |
| 178 | +; { |
| 179 | + PUSH {r0, lr} |
| 180 | +; |
| 181 | +; /* Do interrupt handler work here */ |
| 182 | +; /* BL <your interrupt routine in C> */ |
| 183 | + |
| 184 | + POP {r0, lr} |
| 185 | + BX lr |
| 186 | +; } |
| 187 | + |
| 188 | +Note: the Cortex-M55 requires exception handlers to be thumb labels, this implies bit 0 set. |
| 189 | +To accomplish this, the declaration of the label has to be preceded by the assembler directive |
| 190 | +.thumb_func to instruct the linker to create thumb labels. The label __tx_IntHandler needs to |
| 191 | +be inserted in the correct location in the interrupt vector table. This table is typically |
| 192 | +located in either your runtime startup file or in the tx_initialize_low_level.s file. |
| 193 | + |
| 194 | + |
| 195 | +8. FPU Support |
| 196 | + |
| 197 | +ThreadX for Cortex-M55 supports automatic ("lazy") VFP support, which means that applications threads |
| 198 | +can simply use the VFP and ThreadX automatically maintains the VFP registers as part of the thread |
| 199 | +context. |
| 200 | + |
| 201 | + |
| 202 | +9. Revision History |
| 203 | + |
| 204 | +For generic code revision information, please refer to the readme_threadx_generic.txt |
| 205 | +file, which is included in your distribution. The following details the revision |
| 206 | +information associated with this specific port of ThreadX: |
| 207 | + |
| 208 | +06-02-2021 Release 6.1.7 changes: |
| 209 | + tx_port.h Remove unneeded include file |
| 210 | + tx_thread_secure_stack_initialize.S New file |
| 211 | + tx_thread_schedule.S Added secure stack initialize to SVC hander |
| 212 | + tx_thread_secure_stack.c Fixed stack pointer save, initialize in handler mode |
| 213 | + |
| 214 | +04-02-2021 Release 6.1.6 changes: |
| 215 | + tx_port.h Updated macro definition |
| 216 | + tx_thread_schedule.s Added low power support |
| 217 | + |
| 218 | +03-02-2021 The following files were changed/added for version 6.1.5: |
| 219 | + tx_port.h Added ULONG64_DEFINED |
| 220 | + |
| 221 | +09-30-2020 Initial ThreadX 6.1 version for Cortex-M55 using AC6 tools. |
| 222 | + |
| 223 | + |
| 224 | +Copyright(c) 1996-2020 Microsoft Corporation |
| 225 | + |
| 226 | + |
| 227 | +https://azure.com/rtos |
| 228 | + |
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