From b71df58f2fb4ed85d4c8cf806d5837ce63c73f31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emil Fresk Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 13:22:45 +0200 Subject: The great docs update --- book/en/src/by-example/software_tasks.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 book/en/src/by-example/software_tasks.md (limited to 'book/en/src/by-example/software_tasks.md') diff --git a/book/en/src/by-example/software_tasks.md b/book/en/src/by-example/software_tasks.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0c9b62e --- /dev/null +++ b/book/en/src/by-example/software_tasks.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# Software tasks & spawn + +To declare tasks in the framework the `#[task]` attribute is used on a function. +By default these tasks are referred to as software tasks as they do not have a direct coupling to +an interrupt handler. Software tasks can be spawned (started) using the `task_name::spawn()` static +method which will directly run the task given that there are no higher priority tasks running. +This is exemplified in the following: + +``` rust +{{#include ../../../../examples/spawn.rs}} +``` + +``` console +$ cargo run --target thumbv7m-none-eabi --example spawn +{{#include ../../../../ci/expected/spawn.run}} +``` -- cgit v1.2.3