I am currently using the FreeRTOS in a project using a PIC32MX. It all worked properly until I added an xTaskCreate from inside an interrupt routine. The system crashed!. The created task started with an xTaskDelay and although it reached this function it never returned but failed on an address problem. /* Task started. */ static void downloadtask( void *param ) {     uint8t     result;     BFRHANDLE  bfr;     uint16t    cChr;     uint8t     retry;     uint8t     schar = 0;     vTaskDelay( DOWNLOADDELAYTO_START );     fileClean( 1 );     …………. I WILL find a way round my problem but it would be interesting to know if there is a known problem. — Regards Malcolm Technical Manager (R&D) ENS Group Orpheus House Calleva Park Aldermaston Berks RG7 8TA UK Email: malcolm@smc-electronics.co.uk Web: www.smc-electronics.co.uk Web: www.ens-group.co.uk

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There is a simple rule of thumb (which doesn’t hold in all cases, but is easy to state and follow): Do not call any API function that doesn’t end if ‘FromISR’ from an interrupt. That is particularly true of xTaskCreate(), which will allocate memory. If you want to create a task from an interrupt then use one of the deferred interrupt handling techniques, or use xTimerPendFunctionCallFromISR() http://www.freertos.org/xTimerPendFunctionCallFromISR.html I would recommend reading the book, its free, and won’t take long: http://www.freertos.org/Documentation/RTOS_book.html

Many thanks. My problem was using the taskENTERCRITICAL/taskEXITCRITICAL inside an interrupt. I noted your comments and changed to starting the task then suspended it. Whan I wanted to use it I just did an xTaskResumeFromISR to activate it.