added a halt instruction loop to not sleep via constantly spinning the cpu on 100% but instead allow it enter a sleep state until the next instruction via the hlt signal in src/lib.rs

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/StrixKernel/src/lib.rs b/StrixKernel/src/lib.rs
index 986c4cd..c2cf804 100644
--- a/StrixKernel/src/lib.rs
+++ b/StrixKernel/src/lib.rs
@@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ pub fn init() {
     x86_64::instructions::interrupts::enable();
 }
 
+pub fn hlt_loop() -> ! {
+    loop {
+        x86_64::instructions::hlt();
+    }
+}
+
+// TEST HANDLING
+
 impl<T> Testable for T
 where
     T: Fn(),