Bottom Halfs

Macros
#define	nosBottomHalfUnregister(number)   nosBottomHalfRegister(number, NULL, NULL)

Functions
NANOEXT VAR_t POSCALL	nosBottomHalfRegister (UVAR_t number, NOSBHFUNC_t func, void *arg)
NANOEXT void POSCALL	nosBottomHalfStart (UVAR_t number)

Detailed Description

Note: This API is part of the nano layer

Interrupt service routines can be divided into to halfs: the top and the bottom half. The top half is that piece of code, that is directly executed when the processor gets an hardware interrupt signalled. This code is usually executed with globally disabled interrupts. Thus, a second interrupt that happens while the first interrupt is still serviced, will be delayed until the processor has left the currently running ISR again. To minimize interrupt delay, only the critical part of the ISR (the top half) is executed at interrupt level, all non critical code is executed at task level (bottom half). Because the bottom half is interruptable, critical interrupts won't be delayed too much.

Macro Definition Documentation

nosBottomHalfUnregister

#define nosBottomHalfUnregister

(

number

)

nosBottomHalfRegister(number, NULL, NULL)

Bottom half function. Unregisters a bottom half.

Parameters

number

Number of the bottom half to unregister. Must be between 0 and NOS_MAX_BOTTOMHALFS - 1.

Returns

Zero on success. Nonzero values denote an error.

Note

NOSCFG_FEATURE_BOTTOMHALF must be defined to 1 to enable bottom half support.

See also

nosBottomHalfRegister

Function Documentation

nosBottomHalfRegister()

NANOEXT VAR_t POSCALL nosBottomHalfRegister	(	UVAR_t	number,
		NOSBHFUNC_t	func,
		void *	arg
	)

Bottom half function. Registers a new bottom half.

Parameters

number	Number of the bottom half. Must be between 0 and NOS_MAX_BOTTOMHALFS - 1.
func	pointer to the bottom half function that shall be executed when the bottom half is triggered.
arg	optional argument passed to function func.

Returns

Zero on success. Nonzero values denote an error.

Note

To unregister a bottom half function again, you may call this function with funcptr = NULL, or alternatively, you can use the macro nosBottomHalfUnregister.
NOSCFG_FEATURE_BOTTOMHALF must be defined to 1 to enable bottom half support.

Important! A bottom half function is not allowed to block, that means such a function must not call functions that may block (for example, this functions are nosTaskSleep, nosSemaGet, nosSemaWait, nosMutexLock).

See also

nosBottomHalfUnregister, nosBottomHalfStart

nosBottomHalfStart()

NANOEXT void POSCALL nosBottomHalfStart

(

UVAR_t

number

)

Bottom half function. Triggers a bottom half function. The bottom half is executed when the interrupt level is left.

Parameters

number

Number of the bottom half. Must be between 0 and NOS_MAX_BOTTOMHALFS - 1.

Note

This function is called by the top half of an interrupt service routine. The ISR that calls this function does not need to call c_pos_intEnter before.
NOSCFG_FEATURE_BOTTOMHALF must be defined to 1 to enable bottom half support.

See also

nosBottomHalfRegister, nosBottomHalfUnregister