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Detailed Description

semphr. h

Macro to release a semaphore. The semaphore must have previously been created with a call to xSemaphoreCreateBinary() or xSemaphoreCreateCounting().

Mutex type semaphores (those created using a call to xSemaphoreCreateMutex()) must not be used with this macro.

This macro can be used from an ISR.

Parameters:

  • xSemaphore A handle to the semaphore being released. This is the handle returned when the semaphore was created.
  • pxHigherPriorityTaskWoken xSemaphoreGiveFromISR() will set *pxHigherPriorityTaskWoken to pdTRUE if giving the semaphore caused a task to unblock, and the unblocked task has a priority higher than the currently running task. If xSemaphoreGiveFromISR() sets this value to pdTRUE then a context switch should be requested before the interrupt is exited.

Returns:

pdTRUE if the semaphore was successfully given, otherwise errQUEUE_FULL.

Example usage: