Use the bigger priority whenever possible. (#760)

Moral-Hao · aggarg · web-flow · commit 7372519cba39 · 2023-08-18T21:35:10.000+05:30
Co-authored-by: Gaurav-Aggarwal-AWS &lt;33462878+aggarg@users.noreply.github.com&gt;
diff --git a/tasks.c b/tasks.c
@@ -2462,8 +2462,9 @@ static void prvInitialiseNewTask( TaskFunction_t pxTaskCode,
                 #if ( configUSE_MUTEXES == 1 )
                 {
                     /* Only change the priority being used if the task is not
-                     * currently using an inherited priority. */
-                    if( pxTCB->uxBasePriority == pxTCB->uxPriority )
+                     * currently using an inherited priority or the new priority
+                     * is bigger than the inherited priority. */
+                    if( ( pxTCB->uxBasePriority == pxTCB->uxPriority ) || ( uxNewPriority > pxTCB->uxPriority ) )
                     {
                         pxTCB->uxPriority = uxNewPriority;
                     }

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -2462,8 +2462,9 @@ static void prvInitialiseNewTask( TaskFunction_t pxTaskCode,`
`2462`	`2462`	`#if ( configUSE_MUTEXES == 1 )`
`2463`	`2463`	`{`
`2464`	`2464`	`/* Only change the priority being used if the task is not`
`2465`		`- * currently using an inherited priority. */`
`2466`		`- if( pxTCB->uxBasePriority == pxTCB->uxPriority )`
	`2465`	`+ * currently using an inherited priority or the new priority`
	`2466`	`+ * is bigger than the inherited priority. */`
	`2467`	`+ if( ( pxTCB->uxBasePriority == pxTCB->uxPriority ) \|\| ( uxNewPriority > pxTCB->uxPriority ) )`
`2467`	`2468`	`{`
`2468`	`2469`	`pxTCB->uxPriority = uxNewPriority;`
`2469`	`2470`	`}`