minix/lib/sysutil/tickdelay.c
David van Moolenbroek ac9ab099c8 General cleanup:
- clean up kernel section of minix/com.h somewhat
- remove ALLOCMEM and VM_ALLOCMEM calls
- remove non-safecopy and minix-vmd support from Inet
- remove SYS_VIRVCOPY and SYS_PHYSVCOPY calls
- remove obsolete segment encoding in SYS_SAFECOPY*
- remove DEVCTL call, svrctl(FSDEVUNMAP), map_driverX
- remove declarations of unimplemented svrctl requests
- remove everything related to swapping to disk
- remove floppysetup.sh
- remove traces of rescue device
- update DESCRIBE.sh with new devices
- some other small changes
2010-01-05 19:39:27 +00:00

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#include "sysutil.h"
#include <timers.h>
/*===========================================================================*
* tickdelay *
*===========================================================================*/
PUBLIC int tickdelay(ticks)
long ticks; /* number of ticks to wait */
{
/* This function uses the synchronous alarm to delay for a while. This works
* even if a previous synchronous alarm was scheduled, because the remaining
* tick of the previous alarm are returned so that it can be rescheduled.
* Note however that a long tick_delay (longer than the remaining time of the
* previous) alarm will also delay the previous alarm.
*/
message m, m_alarm;
int s;
if (ticks <= 0) return OK; /* check for robustness */
m.ALRM_EXP_TIME = ticks; /* request message after ticks */
m.ALRM_ABS_TIME = 0; /* ticks are relative to now */
s = _taskcall(SYSTASK, SYS_SETALARM, &m);
if (s != OK) return(s);
receive(CLOCK,&m_alarm); /* await synchronous alarm */
/* Check if we must reschedule the current alarm. */
if (m.ALRM_TIME_LEFT > 0 && m.ALRM_TIME_LEFT != TMR_NEVER) {
m.ALRM_EXP_TIME = m.ALRM_TIME_LEFT - ticks;
if (m.ALRM_EXP_TIME <= 0)
m.ALRM_EXP_TIME = 1;
s = _taskcall(SYSTASK, SYS_SETALARM, &m);
}
return(s);
}