The example project is part of the Arm Mbed OS Official Examples. It contains an application that demonstrates how to generate thread statistics in Mbed OS.
You can build the project with all supported Mbed OS build tools. However, this example project specifically refers to the command-line interface tools, Arm Mbed CLI 1 and Mbed CLI 2.
Starting with version 6.5, Mbed OS uses Mbed CLI 2. It uses Ninja as a build system, and CMake to generate the build environment and manage the build process in a compiler-independent manner. If you are working with Mbed OS version prior to 6.5 then check the section Mbed CLI 1.
- Install Mbed CLI 2.
- From the command-line, import the example:
mbed-tools import mbed-os-example-thread-statistics - Change the current directory to where the project was imported.
- Install Mbed CLI 1.
- From the command-line, import the example:
mbed import mbed-os-example-thread-statistics - Change the current directory to where the project was imported.
The main() function starts two threads: blinky_thread and idle_thread. It also outputs information such as id, name, state, priority, stack_space and stack_size on the serial interface thread .
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Connect a USB cable between the USB port on the board and the host computer.
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Run the following command to build the example project and program the microcontroller flash memory:
- Mbed CLI 2
$ mbed-tools compile -m <TARGET> -t <TOOLCHAIN> --flash --sterm
- Mbed CLI 1
$ mbed compile -m <TARGET> -t <TOOLCHAIN> --flash --sterm
Your PC may take a few minutes to compile your code.
The binary is located at:
- Mbed CLI 2 -
./cmake_build/<TARGET>/<PROFILE>/<TOOLCHAIN>/mbed-os-example-thread-statistics.bin - Mbed CLI 1 -
./BUILD/<TARGET>/<TOOLCHAIN>/mbed-os-example-thread-statistics.bin
Alternatively, you can manually copy the binary to the board, which you mount on the host computer over USB.
Depending on the target, you can build the example project with the GCC_ARM, ARM or IAR toolchain. After installing Arm Mbed CLI, run the command below to determine which toolchain supports your target:
$ mbed compile -SYou can also open a serial terminal separately, rather than using the --sterm option, with the following command:
- Mbed CLI 2
$ mbed-tools sterm- Mbed CLI 1
$ mbed stermThe serial terminal shows an output similar to:
--- Terminal on /dev/ttyACM0 - 9600,8,N,1 ---
ID: 0x20000e20
Name: main
State: 2
Priority: 24
Stack Size: 4096
Stack Space: 3896
ID: 0x20000f70
Name: rtx_idle
State: 1
Priority: 1
Stack Size: 512
Stack Space: 256
ID: 0x1fff0580
Name: blinky_thread
State: 3
Priority: 24
Stack Size: 224
Stack Space: 128
ID: 0x20000f2c
Name: rtx_timer
State: 3
Priority: 40
Stack Size: 768
Stack Space: 664
ID: 0x1fff0730
Name: idle_thread
State: 3
Priority: 24
Stack Size: 384
Stack Space: 280
The information below shows how to interpret the above fields:
ID: Thread id
Name: Thread name
State: Thread states:
0: Inactive,
1: Ready,
2: Running,
3: Blocked,
4: Terminated,
-1: Error
Priority: Thread priority (higher number indicates higher priority)
Stack Size: Current number of bytes reserved for the stack
Stack Space: Current number of free bytes remaining on the stack
You can enable thread statistics by setting platform.thread-stats-enabled to true in the application configuration file:
{
"target_overrides": {
"*": {
"platform.thread-stats-enabled": true
}
}
}
If you have problems, you can review the documentation for suggestions on what could be wrong and how to fix it.
The software is provided under the Apache-2.0 license. Contributions to this project are accepted under the same license. Please see contributing.md for more information.
This project contains code from other projects. The original license text is included in those source files. They must comply with our license guide.