An RTOS-friendly Serial interface Its primary benefit is that it never hogs the CPU. An amusing alternative to the traditional ring-bufferd interrupt-serviced systems, it uses short mbed-rtos queues to buffer characters to and from the UART, and a thread to service the transmitter. Short interrupt service routines enqueue received characters and signal the transmit thread when the transmitter is available. WARNING: Do not create RTOS-Serial objects before the RTOS is running! Put them inside your main() block or another function, not in the global initialization.

Dependents:   Test_RDM880_rfid_reader

rtos_serial.cpp

Committer:
altasoul
Date:
2013-10-22
Revision:
8:3644d12758da
Parent:
7:dd892347b524
Child:
10:d5adca63e94a

File content as of revision 8:3644d12758da:

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2013 Tom Soulanille
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#include "rtos_serial.h"

RTOS_Serial::RTOS_Serial(PinName tx, PinName rx, const char *name)
 : Serial(tx, rx, name)
{
    uart_number = get_index();
    const PinName leds[] = {LED1,LED2,LED3,LED4};
    ledp = new DigitalOut(leds[uart_number]);
#ifdef RTOS_SERIAL_TX_THREAD
    tx_emitter_threadp = new Thread(tx_emitter, (void *) this);
#endif
    rx_isr_pFP = attach(this, &RTOS_Serial::rx_isr, RxIrq);
    tx_isr_pFP = attach(this, &RTOS_Serial::tx_isr, TxIrq);    
#ifdef RTOS_SERIAL_TX_THREAD
    tx_emitter_threadp->signal_set(0x01);   // "prime the pump" of the tx-ready signals
#else
    Serial::_putc('*'); //DEBUG
#endif
}


RTOS_Serial::~RTOS_Serial() {
    remove_handler(rx_isr_pFP, RxIrq);
    remove_handler(tx_isr_pFP, TxIrq);
#ifdef RTOS_SERIAL_TX_THREAD
    tx_emitter_threadp->terminate();
    delete tx_emitter_threadp;
#endif
}

int  RTOS_Serial::get_index() { return _serial.index; }

int RTOS_Serial::putc(int c) {
    //return Serial::putc(c); //DEBUG
    //if (tx_q.put((int *)c, osWaitForever) == osOK) return c; else return EOF;
    int status;
    if ( (status = tx_q.put((int *)c, osWaitForever)) == osOK) return c; else {
        std::printf("\r\nRTOS_Serial::tx_q.put() returned %d\r\n", status);
        return EOF;
    }
}   

int RTOS_Serial::puts(const char *s) {
    int rv = 0;
    while (*s) {
        if (putc(*s++) == EOF) {
            rv = EOF;
            break;
        } else {
            rv++;
        }
    }
    return rv;
}

int RTOS_Serial::parent_putc(int c) {
    return Serial::_putc(c);
}

int RTOS_Serial::getc() {
    int rv;
    //return Serial::getc();  //FIXME: stand-in, which fails if we use our RX ISR
    osEvent evt = rx_q.get();
    if (evt.status == osEventMessage) {
        rv = (int) evt.value.v;
    } else {    //FIXME: find appropriate error reporting if any
        std::printf("\r\nRTOS_Serial::getc() evt.status %d\n", evt.status);
        rv = EOF;
    }
    return rv;
}

void RTOS_Serial::rx_isr(){
    rx_q.put((int *) _getc());
}

void RTOS_Serial::tx_isr(){
#ifdef RTOS_SERIAL_TX_THREAD
    tx_emitter_threadp->signal_set(0x1);
#else
    osEvent evt;
    evt = tx_q.get();
    if (evt.status == osEventMessage) {
        *ledp = 1;
        parent_putc(evt.value.v);
        *ledp = 0;
    } /*else {
        std::printf("\r\nRTOS_Serial::tx_emitter() evt.status %d\n", evt.status);
    }*/
#endif
}

#ifdef RTOS_SERIAL_TX_THREAD
// tx_emitter is a class method
void RTOS_Serial::tx_emitter(void const *argument){
    RTOS_Serial *sp = (RTOS_Serial *) argument;
    osEvent evt;
    //osStatus status;
    while(true){
        evt = sp->tx_q.get();
        if (evt.status == osEventMessage) {
            // There is no TX interrupt until the first byte is sent out the port,
            // so we use a timeout on the signal from the interrupt service routine
            // and just proceed to transmit the character. This should happen only
            // once at most, to "prime the pump", but the timeout provides some
            // safety in case something goes wrong.
            // A first signal is sent by the RTOS_Serial constructor when the thread
            // is created, so normally this will not come into effect.
            // DEBUG: timeout omitted to search for instabilities
            Thread::signal_wait(0x1/*, 10*/);   //FIXME: base the timeout on the baud rate
            *(sp->ledp) = 1;
            sp->parent_putc(evt.value.v);
            *(sp->ledp) = 0;
        } else {
            std::printf("\r\nRTOS_Serial::tx_emitter() evt.status %d\n", evt.status);
        }
        *(sp->ledp) = 0;
    }
}
#endif