I'm using FreeRTOS on a Zynq 7000. The ARM_CA9 port.c has vPortEnterCritical() function which states this is not the interrupt safe version of the enter critical function and it asserts if called from an interrupt. But I do not see an ISR safe version of this. I have a critical section I want to enter, from a task and from an ISR. How would I do this? The complete function is below for reference.

Thank you for any help.

void vPortEnterCritical( void )
{
    /* Mask interrupts up to the max syscall interrupt priority. */
	ulPortSetInterruptMask();

    /* Now interrupts are disabled ulCriticalNesting can be accessed
	directly.  Increment ulCriticalNesting to keep a count of how many times
    portENTER_CRITICAL() has been called. */
	ulCriticalNesting++;

    /* This is not the interrupt safe version of the enter critical function so
	assert() if it is being called from an interrupt context.  Only API
	functions that end in "FromISR" can be used in an interrupt.  Only assert if
    the critical nesting count is 1 to protect against recursive calls if the
	assert function also uses a critical section. */
    if( ulCriticalNesting == 1 )
	{
    	configASSERT( ulPortInterruptNesting == 0 );
	}
}

Upon further research, I think calling vPortEnterCritical() from the task is enough. It ensures the ISR won't run when the task is in the critical section. When the ISR is running, the task is not running and can not run until the ISR is done.

I was just a couple more google searches from unveiling this new information. Sorry for the post, but would appreciate confirmation of this finding though. Thanks.

That is correct.

For future reference http://www.freertos.org/taskENTERCRITICALFROMISRtaskEXITCRITICALFROM_ISR.html