SECURE FAULT when trying to use uart1 on nrf9160dk

[Anders Reiche]

Hi, I'm building an application that will use the nrf9160 as a middle man for a websocket connection that becomes a uart connection on the main processor. Thus I want to receive messages on uart1 and send them to the websocket, and then receive messages on the websocket and send them to uart1. I want to still have full debug capabilities on the virtual com port over usb, so that's why I'm not trying to use uart0. 

When I'm calling a uart function like uart_rx_enable / uart_tx, I get a runtime error that looks like this:

[00:00:00.384,674] <err> lte_app: Cannot set UART callback (err -88)
[00:00:00.387,756] <err> os: ***** SECURE FAULT *****
[00:00:00.387,756] <err> os: Invalid entry point
[00:00:00.387,786] <err> os: r0/a1: 0x0002afd0 r1/a2: 0x20011758 r2/a3: 0x00000200
[00:00:00.387,786] <err> os: r3/a4: 0x00000064 r12/ip: 0x00000000 r14/lr: 0x0000a233
[00:00:00.387,786] <err> os: xpsr: 0x20000000
[00:00:00.387,817] <err> os: Faulting instruction address (r15/pc): 0x00000000
[00:00:00.387,847] <err> os: >>> ZEPHYR FATAL ERROR 38: Unknown error on CPU 0
[00:00:00.387,878] <err> os: Current thread: 0x2000ea08 (unknown)
[00:00:00.482,940] <err> os: Halting system

The uart hardware seems to be correctly initialized as indicated by testing for readyness and printing uart device name:
<dbg> lte_app: main: UART device uart@9000 is ready 

I'm on SDK v2.7.0
My board is set to: nrf910dk/nrf9160/ns

here is my config: 

# General

CONFIG_HEAP_MEM_POOL_SIZE=4096

CONFIG_MAIN_STACK_SIZE=4096

# Logging

CONFIG_LOG=y

CONFIG_MODEM=y

CONFIG_MODEM_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y

CONFIG_NET_LOG=y

CONFIG_NET_SOCKETS_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y

# CONFIG_NET_HTTP_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y # http request dumps

CONFIG_NET_WEBSOCKET_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y

CONFIG_NET_CONTEXT_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y

CONFIG_NET_TCP_LOG_LEVEL_DBG=y

# Network

CONFIG_NETWORKING=y

CONFIG_NET_TCP=y

CONFIG_NET_SOCKETS=y

CONFIG_NET_SOCKETS_POSIX_NAMES=y

CONFIG_NET_IPV4=y

CONFIG_NET_CONNECTION_MANAGER=y

CONFIG_NET_CONNECTION_MANAGER_MONITOR_STACK_SIZE=1024

CONFIG_NET_BUF_DATA_SIZE=4096

CONFIG_LOG_BUFFER_SIZE=6000

# Websocket

CONFIG_WEBSOCKET_CLIENT=y

CONFIG_MQTT_LIB=y

CONFIG_MQTT_LIB_WEBSOCKET=y

CONFIG_MBEDTLS_SHA1_C=y

# UART

CONFIG_UART_ASYNC_API=y

[Anders Reiche]

I should add that my overlay looks like this:

&pinctrl {

    uart1_default_alt: uart1_default_alt {

        group1 {

            psels = <NRF_PSEL(UART_TX, 0, 18)>,

                <NRF_PSEL(UART_RX, 0, 17)>,

                <NRF_PSEL(UART_RTS, 0, 21)>,

                <NRF_PSEL(UART_CTS, 0, 19)>;

        };

    };

    uart1_sleep_alt: uart1_sleep_alt {

        group1 {

            psels = <NRF_PSEL(UART_TX, 0, 18)>,

                <NRF_PSEL(UART_RX, 0, 17)>,

                <NRF_PSEL(UART_RTS, 0, 21)>,

                <NRF_PSEL(UART_CTS, 0, 19)>;

            low-power-enable;

        };

    };

};

&uart1 {

    status = "okay";

    current-speed = <115200>;

    pinctrl-0 = <&uart1_default_alt>;

    pinctrl-1 = <&uart1_sleep_alt>;

    pinctrl-names = "default", "sleep";

};

[Hakon]

Hello,

would it be possible for you to share the code?

[Anders Reiche]

I went on with another issue, and when I got back to this I was unable to recreate it. I will open a new ticket if I am able to reproduce it in the future.