Re: [Xen-devel] Announcing OpenBSD/amd64 Xen port

[Mathieu Ropert <mro@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Keir Fraser wrote:

> On 8 Jun 2006, at 10:48, Mathieu Ropert wrote:
>
> > - events/clock issue: there seems to be a race condition leading to 
> > clock not ticking, hence putting system to sleep till a 
> > keyboard/network/disk interrupt is received.
> The ticker doesn't tick when you block. Your idle loop needs to 
> disable interrupts, set a one-shot timer, then block. See safe_halt() 
> in our Linux source tree (arch/i386/kernel/time-xen.c) -- the function 
> expects to be called with interrupts disabled and caller should also 
> have already checked for any other threads being runnable.
>  -- Keir
Thanks! That solved my issue. Just disabling interrupts before i call my 
idle function did the trick.
Mathieu

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