SPIRAM disappears randomly

krajaan
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SPIRAM disappears randomly

Postby krajaan » Fri Sep 14, 2018 12:57 pm

So we recently started developing code for the WROVER module that has 4MB of SPIRAM. I enable the SPIRAM in menuconfig and I check the available size of it at the very beginning of my application using heap_caps_get_free_size(MALLOC_CAP_SPIRAM), and it returns the expected size of 4MB.
BUT, when I start initing different peripherals, e.g. camera, the RAM randomly goes missing, meaning heap_caps_get_free_size(MALLOC_CAP_SPIRAM) returns 0. But the funny thing is, when I introduce a delay before every step/function call/memory allocation during the init using vTaskDelay() and check the free size, the RAM is preserved.

Here is my SPIRAM config:

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#
# SPI RAM config
#
CONFIG_SPIRAM_BOOT_INIT=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_IGNORE_NOTFOUND=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_USE_MEMMAP=
CONFIG_SPIRAM_USE_CAPS_ALLOC=
CONFIG_SPIRAM_USE_MALLOC=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_TYPE_ESPPSRAM32=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_SIZE=4194304
CONFIG_SPIRAM_SPEED_40M=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_SPEED_80M=
CONFIG_SPIRAM_MEMTEST=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_CACHE_WORKAROUND=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_MALLOC_ALWAYSINTERNAL=4096
CONFIG_WIFI_LWIP_ALLOCATION_FROM_SPIRAM_FIRST=y
CONFIG_SPIRAM_MALLOC_RESERVE_INTERNAL=10000
CONFIG_SPIRAM_ALLOW_STACK_EXTERNAL_MEMORY=
CONFIG_MEMMAP_TRACEMEM=
CONFIG_MEMMAP_TRACEMEM_TWOBANKS=
CONFIG_ESP32_TRAX=
CONFIG_TRACEMEM_RESERVE_DRAM=0x0
CONFIG_ESP32_ENABLE_COREDUMP_TO_FLASH=
CONFIG_ESP32_ENABLE_COREDUMP_TO_UART=
CONFIG_ESP32_ENABLE_COREDUMP_TO_NONE=y
CONFIG_ESP32_ENABLE_COREDUMP=
CONFIG_TWO_UNIVERSAL_MAC_ADDRESS=
CONFIG_FOUR_UNIVERSAL_MAC_ADDRESS=y
CONFIG_NUMBER_OF_UNIVERSAL_MAC_ADDRESS=4
CONFIG_SYSTEM_EVENT_QUEUE_SIZE=32
CONFIG_SYSTEM_EVENT_TASK_STACK_SIZE=2048
CONFIG_MAIN_TASK_STACK_SIZE=7000
CONFIG_IPC_TASK_STACK_SIZE=1024
CONFIG_TIMER_TASK_STACK_SIZE=4096
CONFIG_NEWLIB_STDOUT_LINE_ENDING_CRLF=y
CONFIG_NEWLIB_STDOUT_LINE_ENDING_LF=
CONFIG_NEWLIB_STDOUT_LINE_ENDING_CR=
CONFIG_NEWLIB_STDIN_LINE_ENDING_CRLF=
CONFIG_NEWLIB_STDIN_LINE_ENDING_LF=
CONFIG_NEWLIB_STDIN_LINE_ENDING_CR=y
CONFIG_NEWLIB_NANO_FORMAT=
CONFIG_CONSOLE_UART_DEFAULT=y
CONFIG_CONSOLE_UART_CUSTOM=
CONFIG_CONSOLE_UART_NONE=
CONFIG_CONSOLE_UART_NUM=0
CONFIG_CONSOLE_UART_BAUDRATE=115200
CONFIG_ULP_COPROC_ENABLED=y
CONFIG_ULP_COPROC_RESERVE_MEM=512
CONFIG_ESP32_PANIC_PRINT_HALT=
CONFIG_ESP32_PANIC_PRINT_REBOOT=y
CONFIG_ESP32_PANIC_SILENT_REBOOT=
CONFIG_ESP32_PANIC_GDBSTUB=
CONFIG_ESP32_DEBUG_OCDAWARE=y
CONFIG_ESP32_DEBUG_STUBS_ENABLE=
CONFIG_INT_WDT=y
CONFIG_INT_WDT_TIMEOUT_MS=300
CONFIG_TASK_WDT=y
CONFIG_TASK_WDT_PANIC=y
CONFIG_TASK_WDT_TIMEOUT_S=15
CONFIG_TASK_WDT_CHECK_IDLE_TASK_CPU0=
CONFIG_BROWNOUT_DET=y
CONFIG_BROWNOUT_DET_LVL_SEL_0=
CONFIG_BROWNOUT_DET_LVL_SEL_1=
CONFIG_BROWNOUT_DET_LVL_SEL_2=
CONFIG_BROWNOUT_DET_LVL_SEL_3=
CONFIG_BROWNOUT_DET_LVL_SEL_4=
CONFIG_BROWNOUT_DET_LVL_SEL_5=
CONFIG_BROWNOUT_DET_LVL_SEL_6=
CONFIG_BROWNOUT_DET_LVL_SEL_7=y
CONFIG_BROWNOUT_DET_LVL=7
CONFIG_ESP32_TIME_SYSCALL_USE_RTC_FRC1=y
CONFIG_ESP32_TIME_SYSCALL_USE_RTC=
CONFIG_ESP32_TIME_SYSCALL_USE_FRC1=
CONFIG_ESP32_TIME_SYSCALL_USE_NONE=
CONFIG_ESP32_RTC_CLOCK_SOURCE_INTERNAL_RC=y
CONFIG_ESP32_RTC_CLOCK_SOURCE_EXTERNAL_CRYSTAL=
CONFIG_ESP32_RTC_CLK_CAL_CYCLES=1024
CONFIG_ESP32_DEEP_SLEEP_WAKEUP_DELAY=1000
CONFIG_ESP32_XTAL_FREQ_40=
CONFIG_ESP32_XTAL_FREQ_26=
CONFIG_ESP32_XTAL_FREQ_AUTO=y
CONFIG_ESP32_XTAL_FREQ=0
CONFIG_DISABLE_BASIC_ROM_CONSOLE=
CONFIG_ESP_TIMER_PROFILING=y
CONFIG_COMPATIBLE_PRE_V2_1_BOOTLOADERS=
CONFIG_ESP_ERR_TO_NAME_LOOKUP=y
What is causing this strange behaviour?

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fly135
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Re: SPIRAM disappears randomly

Postby fly135 » Fri Sep 14, 2018 4:16 pm

I've been using ext SPI RAM for months and have not run into this problem. Maybe try another board.

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