diff --git a/book/en/book.toml b/book/en/book.toml index caa04ba8fa..98c5bf3f72 100644 --- a/book/en/book.toml +++ b/book/en/book.toml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ [book] -authors = ["Jorge Aparicio"] +authors = ["Jorge Aparicio, Per Lindgren and The Real-Time Interrupt-driven Concurrency developers"] multilingual = false src = "src" title = "Real-Time Interrupt-driven Concurrency" diff --git a/book/en/src/by-example/app.md b/book/en/src/by-example/app.md index 2c70af0e09..6a01193641 100644 --- a/book/en/src/by-example/app.md +++ b/book/en/src/by-example/app.md @@ -34,14 +34,13 @@ And optionally, device specific peripherals through the `core` and `device` fiel of `init::Context`. `static mut` variables declared at the beginning of `init` will be transformed -into `&'static mut` references that are safe to access. +into `&'static mut` references that are safe to access. Notice, this feature may be deprecated in next release, see `task_local` resources. [`rtic::Peripherals`]: ../../api/rtic/struct.Peripherals.html The example below shows the types of the `core`, `device` and `cs` fields, and showcases safe access to a `static mut` variable. The `device` field is only -available when the `peripherals` argument is set to `true` (it defaults to -`false`). +available when the `peripherals` argument is set to `true` (default). In the rare case you want to implement an ultra-slim application you can explicitly set `peripherals` to `false`. ``` rust {{#include ../../../../examples/init.rs}} @@ -71,12 +70,12 @@ then sends the microcontroller to sleep after running `init`. [SLEEPONEXIT]: https://developer.arm.com/docs/100737/0100/power-management/sleep-mode/sleep-on-exit-bit Like in `init`, `static mut` variables will be transformed into `&'static mut` -references that are safe to access. +references that are safe to access. Notice, this feature may be deprecated in the next release, see `task_local` resources. The example below shows that `idle` runs after `init`. -**Note:** The `loop {}` in idle cannot be empty as this will crash the microcontroller due to a bug -in LLVM which miss-optimizes empty loops to a `UDF` instruction in release mode. +**Note:** The `loop {}` in idle cannot be empty as this will crash the microcontroller due to +LLVM compiling empty loops to an `UDF` instruction in release mode. To avoid UB, the loop needs to imply a "side-effect" by inserting an assembly instruction (e.g., `WFI`) or a `continue`. ``` rust {{#include ../../../../examples/idle.rs}} @@ -146,9 +145,9 @@ $ cargo run --example preempt ``` Note that the task `gpiob` does *not* preempt task `gpioc` because its priority -is the *same* as `gpioc`'s. However, once `gpioc` terminates the execution of -task, `gpiob` is prioritized over `gpioa` due to its higher priority. `gpioa` -is resumed only after `gpiob` terminates. +is the *same* as `gpioc`'s. However, once `gpioc` returns, the execution of +task `gpiob` is prioritized over `gpioa` due to its higher priority. `gpioa` +is resumed only after `gpiob` returns. One more note about priorities: choosing a priority higher than what the device supports (that is `1 << NVIC_PRIO_BITS`) will result in a compile error. Due to