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Where does Unhandled Interrupt error comes from ?

MQXuser — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:13:54 GMT

This is the failure that is destroying my application:

*** UNHANDLED INTERRUPT ***
Vector #: 0 0x0
Offset : 0 0x0
Task Id: 0x10002 Td_ptr 0x20001f78 Stack Frame: 0x2000149c
Interrupt_nesting level: 1 PC: 0x00000000 SR: 0x000e

I am using an interrupt port in MCF52259 and when getting a lot(500 interrupts per second) of continous interrupts the program crashes. Changing hardware is the very last of my options (for example adding an 8 bit MCU to read this interrupts).

1.-Why is this happening?

2.-What should be the way to avoid this unhandled interrupt error? (Could Handling these interrupts outside MQX solve the problem???)

Thank you for you help.

Re: Where does Unhandled Interrupt error comes from ?

DavidS — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:57:06 GMT

Hi MQXUser,

Good rule of thumb is if doing more than 200 interrupts per second, to set the interrupt to be direct and not letting the RTOS handle it. This save much overhead and time. This method will pre-empt the RTOS so make certain your ISR handler is small-short-fast.

Regards,

David

Re: Where does Unhandled Interrupt error comes from ?

MQXuser — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:23:23 GMT

Eventually, I have the 200 interrupts per second, but this is not all the time. What about the Unhandled Interrupt?, Task Aware debugger shows me that the Unhandled Interrupt was presented in shell Task. Should I believe this this? Shell task has the lowest priority compared to my other 8 tasks.

Does the extra overhead and extra time used to handle these interrupts cause the Unhandled Interrupt?

Re: Where does Unhandled Interrupt error comes from ?

EAI — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:34:28 GMT

To solve this problem, you need to identify which interrupt (or exception) is unhandled. Install the unexpected_isr handler ( _int_install_unexpected_isr();
) which will print the vector number of the unhandled interrupt.

Re: Where does Unhandled Interrupt error comes from ?

MQXuser — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:45:16 GMT

I have it already printed. This is the information it gives me:

*** UNHANDLED INTERRUPT ***
Vector #: 0 0x0
Offset : 0 0x0
Task Id: 0x10002 Td_ptr 0x20001f78 Stack Frame: 0x2000149c
Interrupt_nesting level: 1 PC: 0x00000000 SR: 0x000e

What does it tell me?

How does it help me to solve the problem?

Re: Where does Unhandled Interrupt error comes from ?

EAI — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:49 GMT

It looks to me like you are getting some memory corruption. Your PC and vector number are both zero - which do not make sense. If it really was some unhandled interrupt, the vector and pc would have sensible values.

Re: Where does Unhandled Interrupt error comes from ?

MQXuser — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:23:32 GMT

Can the memory be corrupted by the rate at which interrupts can be called in my application?

Re: Where does Unhandled Interrupt error comes from ?

MQXuser — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:35:15 GMT

Okay, now I am getting Unhandled interrupt error with PC and vector numbers. Most of the times unhandled interrupt comes from different tasks. Unhandled interrupt comes when many interrupts ocurr in a short period of time.

How could I avoid this error?

Re: Where does Unhandled Interrupt error comes from ?

Rpalenci — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:22:15 GMT

Hi,

I have a similar problem and I don`t understand it. How can I understand the problem.

I can read this:

*** UNHANDLED INTERRUPT ***
Vector #: 0 0x0
Offset : 0 0x0
Task Id: 0x10001 Td_ptr 0x20000e04 Stack Frame: 0x200008fc
Interrupt_nesting level: 2 PC: 0x20007948 SR: 0x003d

Could you help me?

Thank you.

Best regards.

Re: Where does Unhandled Interrupt error comes from ?

eGuy — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:57:29 GMT

Rpalenci wrote:
Hi,

I have a similar problem and I don`t understand it. How can I understand the problem.
I can read this:

*** UNHANDLED INTERRUPT ***
Vector #: 0 0x0
Offset : 0 0x0
Task Id: 0x10001 Td_ptr 0x20000e04 Stack Frame: 0x200008fc
Interrupt_nesting level: 2 PC: 0x20007948 SR: 0x003d

Could you help me?

Thank you.
Best regards.

I also see similar problem.

Any answers to this question?

Regards,

Re: Where does Unhandled Interrupt error comes from ?

MarkA — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:20:13 GMT

eGuy wrote:

Rpalenci wrote:
Hi,

I have a similar problem and I don`t understand it. How can I understand the problem.
I can read this:

*** UNHANDLED INTERRUPT ***
Vector #: 0 0x0
Offset : 0 0x0
Task Id: 0x10001 Td_ptr 0x20000e04 Stack Frame: 0x200008fc
Interrupt_nesting level: 2 PC: 0x20007948 SR: 0x003d

Could you help me?

Thank you.
Best regards.

I also see similar problem.

Any answers to this question?

Regards,

I'm also fighting this. I just moved from CW 7.1.2 to 7.2.1. I'm using MQX 3.3 and 52259.

If I disable all my autostart tasks, including the startup task, MQX runs happily doing nothing. If I enable my startup task to autostart I get the vector 0 offset 0 crash. I've even replaced my startup task with

void Startup_Task(uint_32)
{
_int_install_unexpected_isr();
for( ; ; ) {}
}

and still get the same crash.

Is MQX 3.3 and CW 7.2.1 known to be a bad mix?

Thanks

Re: Where does Unhandled Interrupt error comes from ?

Rpalenci — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:55:23 GMT

Dear,

Firstly, tell to you that I have used MQX 3.4 && 3.5, only.

I am not sure if you can have some similar problem to me. My problem was prodruced using stack RTCS.

When I send a pcb fragment, I didn't wait for MQX free the pcb fragment for I send other pcb fragment.

Handled interrupt is porduced because I tried write in a structure while the system is using yet.

Solve: I use a mutex in function callback where the system tell me it finished with the structure. Only, if the mutex is unlock I can come back to send..

I hope that It help to someone.

Regards.

Re: Where does Unhandled Interrupt error comes from ?

eGuy — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:41:12 GMT

Thanks for your reply.

My problem was solved, see here:

https://community.freescale.com/message/66897#66897

Regards,

Jeff