-/**
- * Disable preemptive task switching.
- *
- * The scheduler maintains a per-process nesting counter. Task switching is
- * effectively re-enabled only when the number of calls to proc_permit()
- * matches the number of calls to proc_forbid().
- *
- * Calling functions that could sleep while task switching is disabled
- * is dangerous, although supported. Preemptive task switching is
- * resumed while the process is sleeping and disabled again as soon as
- * it wakes up again.
- *
- * \sa proc_permit()
- */
-void proc_forbid(void)
-{
- /* No need to protect against interrupts here. */
- ++CurrentProcess->forbid_cnt;
-}
-
-/**
- * Re-enable preemptive task switching.
- *
- * \sa proc_forbid()
- */
-void proc_permit(void)
-{
- /* No need to protect against interrupts here. */
- --CurrentProcess->forbid_cnt;
+ /* Poll on the ready queue for the first ready process */
+ LIST_ASSERT_VALID(&proc_ready_list);
+ while (!(current_process = (struct Process *)list_remHead(&proc_ready_list)))
+ {
+ /*
+ * Make sure we physically reenable interrupts here, no matter what
+ * the current task status is. This is important because if we
+ * are idle-spinning, we must allow interrupts, otherwise no
+ * process will ever wake up.
+ *
+ * During idle-spinning, an interrupt can occur and it may
+ * modify \p proc_ready_list. To ensure that compiler reload this
+ * variable every while cycle we call CPU_MEMORY_BARRIER.
+ * The memory barrier ensure that all variables used in this context
+ * are reloaded.
+ * \todo If there was a way to write sig_wait() so that it does not
+ * disable interrupts while waiting, there would not be any
+ * reason to do this.
+ */
+ IRQ_ENABLE;
+ CPU_IDLE;
+ MEMORY_BARRIER;
+ IRQ_DISABLE;
+ }
+ proc_switchTo(current_process, old_process);
+ /* This RET resumes the execution on the new process */
+ LOG_INFO("resuming %p:%s\n", current_process, proc_currentName());