Threads: Use a dummy idle thread when no other are ready.

This thread will not actually execute instructions, it will only advance the timing/events and try to yield immediately to the next ready thread, if there aren't any ready threads then it will be rescheduled and start its job again.
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Subv 2015-01-07 10:10:58 -05:00
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commit 60a373a786
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@ -104,6 +104,17 @@ ResultVal<u32> GetThreadPriority(const Handle handle);
/// Set the priority of the thread specified by handle
ResultCode SetThreadPriority(Handle handle, s32 priority);
/**
* Sets up the idle thread, this is a thread that is intended to never execute instructions,
* only to advance the timing. It is scheduled when there are no other ready threads in the thread queue
* and will try to yield on every call.
* @returns The handle of the idle thread
*/
Handle SetupIdleThread();
/// Whether the current thread is an idle thread
bool IsIdleThread(Handle thread);
/// Initialize threading
void ThreadingInit();