When a tasks raises an exception which is uncaught, and no other task
await's on that task, then an error message is printed (or a user function
called) via a call to Loop.call_exception_handler. In CPython this call is
made when the Task object is freed (eg via reference counting) because it's
at that point that it is known that the exception that was raised will
never be handled.
MicroPython does not have reference counting and the current behaviour is
to deal with uncaught exceptions as early as possible, ie as soon as they
terminate the task. But this can be undesirable because in certain cases
a task can start and raise an exception immediately (before any await is
executed in that task's coro) and before any other task gets a chance to
await on it to catch the exception.
This commit changes the behaviour so that tasks which end due to an
uncaught exception are scheduled one more time for execution, and if they
are not await'ed on by the next scheduling loop, then the exception handler
is called (eg the exception is printed out).
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This commit adds support to pyboard.py for the new raw REPL paste mode.
Note that this new pyboard.py is fully backwards compatible with old
devices (it detects if the device supports the new raw REPL paste mode).
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Background: the friendly/normal REPL is intended for human use whereas the
raw REPL is for computer use/automation. Raw REPL is used for things like
pyboard.py script_to_run.py. The normal REPL has built-in flow control
because it echos back the characters. That's not so with raw REPL and flow
control is just implemented by rate limiting the amount of data that goes
in. Currently it's fixed at 256 byte chunks every 10ms. This is sometimes
too fast for slow MCUs or systems with small stdin buffers. It's also too
slow for a lot of higher-end MCUs, ie it could be a lot faster.
This commit adds a new raw REPL mode which includes flow control: the
device will echo back a character after a certain number of bytes are sent
to the host, and the host can use this to regulate the data going out to
the device. The amount of characters is controlled by the device and sent
to the host before communication starts. This flow control allows getting
the maximum speed out of a serial link, regardless of the link or the
device at the other end.
Also, this new raw REPL mode parses and compiles the incoming data as it
comes in. It does this by creating a "stdin reader" object which is then
passed to the lexer. The lexer requests bytes from this "stdin reader"
which retrieves bytes from the host, and does flow control. What this
means is that no memory is used to store the script (in the existing raw
REPL mode the device needs a big buffer to read in the script before it can
pass it on to the lexer/parser/compiler). The only memory needed on the
device is enough to parse and compile.
Finally, it would be possible to extend this new raw REPL to allow bytecode
(.mpy files) to be sent as well as text mode scripts (but that's not done
in this commit).
Some results follow. The test was to send a large 33k script that contains
mostly comments and then prints out the heap, run via pyboard.py large.py.
On PYBD-SF6, prior to this PR:
$ ./pyboard.py large.py
stack: 524 out of 23552
GC: total: 392192, used: 34464, free: 357728
No. of 1-blocks: 12, 2-blocks: 2, max blk sz: 2075, max free sz: 22345
GC memory layout; from 2001a3f0:
00000: h=hhhh=======================================hhBShShh==h=======h
00400: =====hh=B........h==h===========================================
00800: ================================================================
00c00: ================================================================
01000: ================================================================
01400: ================================================================
01800: ================================================================
01c00: ================================================================
02000: ================================================================
02400: ================================================================
02800: ================================================================
02c00: ================================================================
03000: ================================================================
03400: ================================================================
03800: ================================================================
03c00: ================================================================
04000: ================================================================
04400: ================================================================
04800: ================================================================
04c00: ================================================================
05000: ================================================================
05400: ================================================================
05800: ================================================================
05c00: ================================================================
06000: ================================================================
06400: ================================================================
06800: ================================================================
06c00: ================================================================
07000: ================================================================
07400: ================================================================
07800: ================================================================
07c00: ================================================================
08000: ================================================================
08400: ===============================================.....h==.........
(349 lines all free)
(the big blob of used memory is the large script).
Same but with this PR:
$ ./pyboard.py large.py
stack: 524 out of 23552
GC: total: 392192, used: 1296, free: 390896
No. of 1-blocks: 12, 2-blocks: 3, max blk sz: 40, max free sz: 24420
GC memory layout; from 2001a3f0:
00000: h=hhhh=======================================hhBShShh==h=======h
00400: =====hh=h=B......h==.....h==....................................
(381 lines all free)
The only thing in RAM is the compiled script (and some other unrelated
items).
Time to download before this PR: 1438ms, data rate: 230,799 bits/sec.
Time to download with this PR: 119ms, data rate: 2,788,991 bits/sec.
So it's more than 10 times faster, and uses significantly less RAM.
Results are similar on other boards. On an stm32 board that connects via
UART only at 115200 baud, the data rate goes from 80kbit/sec to
113kbit/sec, so gets close to saturating the UART link without loss of
data.
The new raw REPL mode also supports a single ctrl-C to break out of this
flow-control mode, so that a ctrl-C can always get back to a known state.
It's also backwards compatible with the original raw REPL mode, which is
still supported with the same sequence of commands. The new raw REPL
mode is activated by ctrl-E, which gives an error on devices that do not
support the new mode.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Travis now limits the amount of free minutes for open-source projects, and
it does not provide enough for this project. So stop using it and instead
use on GitHub Actions.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Also known as L2CAP "connection oriented channels". This provides a
socket-like data transfer mechanism for BLE.
Currently only implemented for NimBLE on STM32 / Unix.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Hardware I2C implementations must provide a .init() protocol method if they
want to support reconfiguration. Otherwise the default is that i2c.init()
raises an OSError (currently the case for all ports).
mp_machine_soft_i2c_locals_dict is renamed to mp_machine_i2c_locals_dict to
match the generic SPI bindings.
Fixes issue #6623 (where calling .init() on a HW I2C would crash).
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This fixes the build for non-STM32WB based boards when the NimBLE submodule
has not been fetched, and also allows STM32WB boards to build with BLE
disabled.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
This is needed to moderate concurrent access to the internal flash, as
while an erase/write is in progress execution will stall on the wireless
core due to the bus being locked.
This implements Figure 10 from AN5289 Rev 3.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
This commit switches the STM32WB HCI interface (between the two CPUs) to
require the use of MICROPY_PY_BLUETOOTH_USE_SYNC_EVENTS, and as a
consequence to require NimBLE. IPCC RX IRQs now schedule the NimBLE
handler to run via mp_sched_schedule.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
This test currently passes on Unix/PYBD, but fails on WB55 because it lacks
synchronisation of the internal flash.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
This changes stm32 from using PENDSV to run NimBLE to use the MicroPython
scheduler instead. This allows Python BLE callbacks to be invoked directly
(and therefore synchronously) rather than via the ringbuffer.
The NimBLE UART HCI and event processing now happens in a scheduled task
every 128ms. When RX IRQ idle events arrive, it will also schedule this
task to improve latency.
There is a similar change for the unix port where the background thread now
queues the scheduled task.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
This requires that the event handlers are called from non-interrupt context
(i.e. the MicroPython scheduler).
This will allow the BLE stack (e.g. NimBLE) to run from the scheduler
rather than an IRQ like PENDSV, and therefore be able to invoke Python
callbacks directly/synchronously. This allows writing Python BLE handlers
for events that require immediate response such as _IRQ_READ_REQUEST (which
was previous a hard IRQ) and future events relating to pairing/bonding.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Using a semaphore (the previous approach) will only run the UART, whereas
for startup we need to also run the event queue.
This change makes it run the full scheduler hook.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Instead of having the stack indicate a "start", "data"..., "end", pass
through the data in one callback as an array of chunks of data.
This is because the upcoming non-ringbuffer modbluetooth implementation
cannot buffer the data in the ringbuffer and requires instead a single
callback with all the data, to pass to the Python callback.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Use the same `wait_for_event` in all tests that doesn't hold a reference to
the event data tuple and handles repeat events.
Also fix a few misc reliability issues around timeouts and sequencing.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Devices with RTC backup-batteries have been shown (very rarely) to have
incorrect RTC prescaler values. Such incorrect values mean the RTC counts
fast or slow, and will be wrong forever if the power/backup-battery is
always present.
This commit detects such a state at start up (hard reset) and corrects it
by reconfiguring the RTC prescaler values.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
And rename SRC_HAL -> HAL_SRC_C and SRC_USBDEV -> USBDEV_SRC_C for
consistency with other source variables.
Follow on from 0fff2e03fe
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
Prior to this change machine.mem32['foo'] (or using any other non-integer
subscript) could result in a fault due to 'foo' being interpreted as an
integer. And when writing code it's hard to tell if the fault is due to a
bad subscript type, or an integer subscript that specifies an invalid
memory address.
The type of the object used in the subscript is now tested to be an
integer by using mp_obj_get_int_truncated instead of
mp_obj_int_get_truncated. The performance hit of this change is minimal,
and machine.memX objects are more for convenience than performance (there
are many other ways to read/write memory in a faster way),
Fixes issue #6588.
The file `$(BUILD)/firmware.bin` was used by the target `deploy-stlink` and
`deploy-openocd` but it was generated indirectly by the target
`firmware.dfu`.
As this file could be used to program boards directly by a Mass Storage
copy, it's better to make it explicitly generated.
Additionally, some target are refactored to remove redundancy and be more
explicit on dependencies.
This gives a substantial speedup of the preprocessing step, i.e. the
generation of qstr.i.last. For example on a clean build, making
qstr.i.last:
21s -> 4s on STM32 (WB55)
8.9 -> 1.8s on Unix (dev).
Done in collaboration with @stinos.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Running the update inside the soft-reset loop will mean that (on boards
like PYBD that use a bootloader) the same reset mode is used each
reset loop, eg factory reset occurs each time.
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
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