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.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/hle/kernel/thread.h b/src/core/hle/kernel/thread.h
index 0e1397cd..dfe92d16 100644
--- a/src/core/hle/kernel/thread.h
+++ b/src/core/hle/kernel/thread.h
@@ -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();