Hi I'm using FreeRtos 5.2.0 , MPLAB 8.02 and the C30 compiler. I created a main() function with the following code:

xTaskHandle Handle;

T1CONbits.TON = 1;
/* Inicializo Hardware. */
vPortInitialiseBlocks();

xTaskCreate( vTarea, ( const portCHAR * const ) "Prueba1", configMINIMAL_STACK_SIZE, &cProcId1, tskIDLE_PRIORITY, NULL );

portBASE_TYPE xYieldRequired;

// Resume the suspended task.
xYieldRequired = xTaskResumeFromISR( Handle );

if( xYieldRequired == pdTRUE )
{
// We should switch context so the ISR returns to a different task.
// NOTE: How this is done depends on the port you are using. Check
// the documentation and examples for your port.
printf("B");
portYIELD();
}

vTaskStartScheduler();
return 0;

The task I create only prints out a text message. According to the Freertos API the xTaskResumeFromISR() function resumes a task when an interrupt occurs. I'm using a ds33FJ256GP710 device. The T1CONbits.TON = 1 activates de T1 timer from the dspic but it seems as if the rtos doesn't capture the interrupt. What could be happening ?

Thanks ...

Its not obvious from your code what is main() and what is the interrupt, it seems mixed up, but a few quick points.

1 Are you enabling the timer interrupt before the kernel is executing? If so then an interrupt being executed will cause a crash when you attempt to yield.

2 Never call printf() from an interrupt.

3 You might consider using a semaphore to wake a task instead of xTaskResumeFromISR().

Yes sorry ... the code earlier was only for the main() function. I didn't put the code for the task. The task's code only has a printf("") function followed by a vTaskSuspend( NULL ); All of that inside a loop. Regarding the questions you asked me. I think I am enabling the timer before de kernel execution:

T1CONbits.TON = 1;

This the first line before vTaskStartScheduler();

You said using a semaphore to wake a task. Umm I'm a newbie here, is there an available documentation anywhere regarding this ??

teratux,
please note that the code you have listed from xtarskResumeFromISR to the } after portYIELD() should be int the ISR not the mainline!! (and printf() shouldn't be called from the ISR).

Oh, ok so I get the idea. After you request a context switch from a function handler the task resumes. I guess this isn't what I'm looking for. My main concern is after an interrupt occurs how can I treat it within a function. The API reference isn't very explicit in this aspect

Thanks for your reply ...

the question comes, what does the function need from the interrupt? If it needs just a bit of data, then perhaps a queue would work to store the data (insert data in ISR, retrieve data in task), if it needs a bigger chunk of data, then sending a pointer to a buffer may work better (and have some code to figure out which buffers are free for the interrupt to use). If the task just needs to be notified that something changed (but isn't being sent any specific data) then the task can wait on a semaphore which is set by the ISR. In each of these cases, the task is calling a routine to get something that the interrupt is sending for the task to get.

Since the interrupt is a timer, it probably isn't sending data, but just indicating a time period, you are most apt to want to use the semaphore.

A couple of thought as a look at things. One issue is that FreeRTOS may be already using T1 for its timebase, and this will interfere with you doing something special with it. The second is that if you are just looking for the task to run periodically, you may want to look at vTaskDelay and vTaskDelayUntil as these may be all that you really need.

Have you read the documentation on FreeRTOS.org? It really is quite good and does provide simple examples for how things work.