Provides a way for a fiber or task to busy wait for a specified
period of time. This is useful in situations where a delay needs
to be performed without switching execution to another context,
such as:
1) It would take longer to switch to another context and then switch
back again than to simply busy wait.
2) A delay is required by the kernel's main task (i.e. the nanokernel's
background task or the microkernel's idle task). This task is not
allowed to voluntarily relinquish the CPU because this would leave
the kernel with nothing to execute in its place.
Change-Id: Icbe28613014f659e9528893ae58f7b8008c18a61
Original-work-by: Jeff Blais <jeff.blais@windriver.com>
Further-adapted-by: Benjamin Walsh <benjamin.walsh@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
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