place thread stack into CCM memory on STM32

[Oleg Uzenkov <o dot uzenkov at unicore dot co dot ua>]

Hi Everyone,

STM32 controllers have CCM (Closely Coupled Memory) memory which acts as 
RAM.

At present I do not use it. But I would like to.

I am developing eCos application in C++. I have something like this in 
the header file:

  class A :
  {
  public:
   A ();
   virtual ~A ();
  ..
  protected:

    cyg_thread    _thread;
    char    _thread_stack [CYGNUM_HAL_STACK_SIZE_TYPICAL] 
__attribute__((section(".ccm")));
  ...

As you can see, I want to place thread stack into CCM section (using 
__attribute__((section("<name>"))).

But I do not know how to do it in a correct way. Please help! :-)

The Memory layout file I use has got:

..
SECTIONS
{
    SECTIONS_BEGIN
    USER_SECTION (ccm, ccm, 0x10000000, LMA_EQ_VMA)
..

And cortexm.ld file has got a macro for USER_SECTION:

#define USER_SECTION(_name_, _region_,  _vma_, _lma_) \
    ._name_ _vma_ : _lma_ \
    { __ ## _name_ ## _start = ABSOLUTE (.); \
     *(._name_*) \
    __ ## _name_ ## _end = ABSOLUTE (.); } \
    > _region_


When I compile the project I get an error:
error: section attribute not allowed for '_thread_stack'

Do I specify attribute in the correct place?

My be I cannot do it for class members but only for global variables?

I would appreciate any help on this.

Oleg







    ...




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