Systick in interrupt using FreeRTOS

Question

I need to count how many miliseconds does it take my interrupt to finish its service. Before I started using FreeRTOS, I just did something like this:

void HAL_GPIO_EXTI_Callback(void)
{
    uint32_t diff;
    start = HAL_GetTick();
    // do anything
    diff = HAL_GetTick() - start;
}

But when I started using FreeRTOS, HAL_GetTick value stopped changing, moreover Systick Interrupt do not work, so there is no chance to increase tick value. Any ideas what should I do to bring back Systick Handler working in interrupt or other solution so I will be able to measure time in interrupt?

Answer 1

Milliseconds is way to long to be spending inside an interrupt, especially when you are using an RTOS. If you interrupt service routine is that long that I would strongly recommend deferring the processing to a task.

FreeRTOS uses the SysTick timer itself, as will probably any RTOS that runs on an ARM Cortex-M part. Further, the STM 32 libraries themselves use FreeRTOS, and the STM32 HAL SysTick interrupt handler calls its own timing routines before calling the FreeRTOS SysTick hander - so the SysTick is not available to the application writer. However there are plent of other peripheral timers you can use.

Answer 2

As in FreeRTOS for STM32, in startup file the Systick interrupt handler vector pointer points to the function required by FreeRTOS for its own use i.e. xPortSysTickHandler. Here FreeRTOS configure the ticks required for RTOS itself for run.

Hence, you can't use systick for any other task.

As Richard said, you can use other timer interrupt based routines for the application requirement.