Static allocation and lightweight idle tasks #323
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Description
This change adds static allocation for all tasks. It also creates an idle task for each core. The first idle task is the same as the legacy idle task and performs housekeeping and calls the vApplicationIdleHook() function. The remaining idle tasks are very light and only call taskYield if needed.
If static allocation is enabled, the first idle task will call the task allocator just like it has always done. But each additional idle task will have the minimum stack memory (configMINIMAL_STACK_SIZE) statically allocated from within the start scheduler function.
Test Steps
This was tested with the XMOS port with 1, 3 and 7 cores active.
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