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[FreeRTOS Home] [Live FreeRTOS Forum] [FAQ] [Archive Top] [May 2010 Threads] FreeRTOS & watchdogPosted by paolo ferrari on May 14, 2010 Using recently FreeRTOS and I need advice: which is the best place to reset the watchdog? - In idle task - A task with lowest priority - A task with highest priority - Elsewhere
Any comments are welcome Thanks Paolo
RE: FreeRTOS & watchdogPosted by MEdwards on May 14, 2010 It depends on what you want the watchdog to do. Normally you will kick the watchdog after performing a number of tests on the entire system, for example, are the correct number of tasks running, has each task executed the expected number of times, have any tasks failed to execute since the check was last performed, etc. This can be done from a task, but the tasks priority will depend on the rest of the application functionality.
RE: FreeRTOS & watchdogPosted by Richard Damon on May 15, 2010 I generally put the watchdog monitor task near the bottom of the priority list (there may be some non-critical background operations below it). Placing it low adds a check for CPU starving by some other task, As Edwards says, it should check that all the critical tasks are still alive and functioning.
RE: FreeRTOS & watchdogPosted by paolo ferrari on May 15, 2010 thanks guys for your answers
another question:
Example: To my mistake or for any reason FreeRTOS crashes. I want a hardware watchdog that in this case reset the system. To reset this when everything is ok, the best place is a task of low or high priority?
Thanks again Paolo
RE: FreeRTOS & watchdogPosted by Jack Peacock on May 17, 2010 In one app (ARM7) I set up a high priority task as a watchdog, triggered once per second from the RTC timer. The watchdog checks the pending messages in several application queues to make sure none are maxed out for several seconds, indicating a hung process. I also reset an external hardware watchdog at the same time.
For another design I put the independent watchdog (STM23) in the system tick hook routine, to guarantee the RTOS timer doesn't stop. Jack Peacock
RE: FreeRTOS & watchdogPosted by paolo ferrari on May 18, 2010 Thanks for your comments. I think I found the right solution for my application.
Thanks again to all Paolo
RE: FreeRTOS & watchdogPosted by jinx on May 28, 2010 Do these answers change for uCs with MPUs such as the Cortex M3?
For example, I assume the best place to put the watchdog functionality would be in a privileged task
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