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+</script> +<div id="doc-content"> +<div class="header"> + <div class="summary"> +<a href="#groups">Content</a> </div> + <div class="headertitle"> +<div class="title">Inter-Thread Communication and Resource Sharing</div> </div> +<div class="ingroups"><a class="el" href="group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s.html">CMSIS-RTOS API</a></div></div><!--header--> +<div class="contents"> + +<p>Functions for inter-thread communication. +<a href="#details">More...</a></p> +<table class="memberdecls"> +<tr class="heading"><td colspan="2"><h2 class="groupheader"><a name="groups"></a> +Content</h2></td></tr> +<tr class="memitem:group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___signal_mgmt"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top"> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___signal_mgmt.html">Signal Events</a></td></tr> +<tr class="memdesc:group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___signal_mgmt"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Synchronize threads using signals. <br/></td></tr> +<tr class="separator:"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr> +<tr class="memitem:group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___message"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top"> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___message.html">Message Queue</a></td></tr> +<tr class="memdesc:group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___message"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Exchange messages between threads in a FIFO-like operation. <br/></td></tr> +<tr class="separator:"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr> +<tr class="memitem:group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___pool_mgmt"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top"> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___pool_mgmt.html">Memory Pool</a></td></tr> +<tr class="memdesc:group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___pool_mgmt"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Manage thread-safe fixed-size blocks of dynamic memory. <br/></td></tr> +<tr class="separator:"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr> +<tr class="memitem:group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___mail"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top"> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___mail.html">Mail Queue</a></td></tr> +<tr class="memdesc:group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___mail"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Exchange data between threads using a queue of memory blocks. <br/></td></tr> +<tr class="separator:"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr> +<tr class="memitem:group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___mutex_mgmt"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top"> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___mutex_mgmt.html">Mutexes</a></td></tr> +<tr class="memdesc:group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___mutex_mgmt"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Synchronize resource access using Mutual Exclusion (Mutex). <br/></td></tr> +<tr class="separator:"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr> +<tr class="memitem:group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___semaphore_mgmt"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top"> </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___semaphore_mgmt.html">Semaphores</a></td></tr> +<tr class="memdesc:group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___semaphore_mgmt"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Access shared resources simultaneously from different threads. <br/></td></tr> +<tr class="separator:"><td class="memSeparator" colspan="2"> </td></tr> +</table> +<a name="details" id="details"></a><h2 class="groupheader">Description</h2> +<p>In most applications, threads need to <b>communicate</b> <b>with</b> <b>each</b> <b>other</b> or <b>access</b> <b>shared</b> <b>resources</b> together. There are many ways to exchange data between threads, for example using shared data, polling loops and message passing.</p> +<p>Many resources in a microcontroller can be considered as <b>serially-reusable</b>. This means that they can be used repeatedly by different threads, but only by <b>one</b> <b>thread</b> <b>at</b> <b>a</b> <b>time</b> (for example communication peripherals such as <b>UARTs</b>, <b>memory</b>, and <b>files</b> that need to be modified).</p> +<p>The CMSIS-RTOS API provides different means to pass messages between threads to make inter-thread communication more efficient. Also, resource sharing is inherently supported. The following methods are available to the user: </p> +<h2>Inter-Thread Communication</h2> +<ul> +<li><a class="el" href="group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___signal_mgmt.html">Signal Events</a></li> +<li><a class="el" href="group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___message.html">Message Queue</a></li> +<li><a class="el" href="group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___pool_mgmt.html">Memory Pool</a></li> +<li><a class="el" href="group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___mail.html">Mail Queue</a></li> +</ul> +<h2>Resource Sharing</h2> +<ul> +<li><a class="el" href="group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___mutex_mgmt.html">Mutexes</a></li> +<li><a class="el" href="group___c_m_s_i_s___r_t_o_s___semaphore_mgmt.html">Semaphores</a> </li> +</ul> +</div><!-- contents --> +</div><!-- doc-content --> +<!-- start footer part --> +<div id="nav-path" class="navpath"><!-- id is needed for treeview function! --> + <ul> + <li class="footer">Generated on Tue Oct 27 2015 14:35:43 for CMSIS-RTOS by ARM Ltd. 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