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while creating a task, 4 times the ram is malloc'd than requested @ prvAllocateTCBAndStack()

Posted by hassan789 on August 26, 2016

When createing a task with 4kB of stack, prvAllocateTCBAndStack() executes the following line:

pxNewTCB->pxStack = ( StackType_t * ) pvPortMallocAligned( ( ( ( size_t ) usStackDepth ) * sizeof( StackType_t ) ), puxStackBuffer );

This does a mallco of 4kB * sizeof( StackType_t ).. which means it mallocs 16kB... why is that?

I am running FreeRTOS v8 and Heap4

Thanks


while creating a task, 4 times the ram is malloc'd than requested @ prvAllocateTCBAndStack()

Posted by rtel on August 26, 2016

Please see the documentation for the xTaskCreate() API function: http://www.freertos.org/a00125.html


while creating a task, 4 times the ram is malloc'd than requested @ prvAllocateTCBAndStack()

Posted by richard_damon on August 26, 2016

Requested stack size is define to be in units of StackTypeT, not bytes. Due to alignment reasons, it MUST be a multiple of StackTypeT, so it is given in units of StackType_T.


while creating a task, 4 times the ram is malloc'd than requested @ prvAllocateTCBAndStack()

Posted by hassan789 on August 26, 2016

understood.. thanks


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