this zeros-watchdog was caused by a SPI DMA error on STM32F405:
https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/crash-with-4-2-0-beta-and-4-3-0-daily-bdshot/83297
we had incorrectly left these internal errors enabled when asserts
were not enabled. That led to a osalSysHalt()
without these we get an spi_fail internal error, caught by the
SPIDevice code
this fixes the flash re-init problem when flash storage fills on
H7. It was caused by rejecting writes where one or more of the 32 byte
chunks was not all 0xff but was equal to the current data. That
happens when writing to the sector header in AP_FlashStorage
it also moves the interrupt disable inside the loop to allow for
other interrupts to run between blocks
we have now shown that interrupts being enabled during flash
operations can cause the infamous "68ms" bug, or watchdog when using a
32 bit timer on boards using flash for storage
The issue is quite repeatable with a load of a very large waypoint
file (over 500 waypoints) using "wp ftpload" in MAVProxy. This puts a
huge load on flash storage.
Our current working theory is that while doing flash writes for
storage on dual-bank we block access to only one bank, so if another
thread uses a timeout function with a short timeout while the flash
write is happening and chVTDoTickI calls code which crosses the flash
bank boundary then it can cause chVTDoTickI to violate the assumption
that no more than CH_CFG_ST_DELTA ticks pass while it is calculating
the value to set in the system timer. In that case we get a delay of a
full timer wrap, which is 68ms on boards with 16 bit timer and 70
minutes on boards with 32 bit timer
hwdef for DevEBoxH7v2
pin definitions for STM32H750
add QSPI to DevEBox bootloader
add external flash to DevEBox
rename EXTERNAL_PROG_FLASH_MB to EXT_FLASH_SIZE_MB
Add support for EXT_FLASH_RESERVE_START_KB and EXT_FLASH_RESERVE_END_KB
Disable HAL_ENABLE_SAVE_PERSISTENT_PARAMS when there is no bootloader flash available
relax storage health status with SD card backend
don't check SD card health unless USE_POSIX
binary sections rearranged on external ram
manage RAMFUNC through ldscript and optimize function placement in external flash
inline timer functions
optimize placement of ChibiOS and functions in ITCM and AXI RAM
fix chibios features on bootloader build with external flash
change H750 memory layout
increase line storage for SD card based parameters
comment external flash linker script
move vtables into DTCM
update ram map for H757
enable crashdump support with external flash
correct bootloader pins and generator on SPRacingH7/DevEBoxH7v2
setup external flash reserve regions
allow different RAM_MAP for external flash on H750 and H757
this avoids an issue with the ChibiOS 20.3 virtual timer
implementation that can result in a scheduling slip equal to the
system timer period.
Andy has been suggesting this change for a while. I resisted it as I
thought it would impact on soft-serial parsing, but it turns out it
doesn't.
Fixes issue #18383
Lokesh Ramina
Andrew Tridgell
Andy Piper
bugobliterator
Nick Exton