I used nanosleep() in my device driver, but it crashed the kernel saying pagefault in kernel mode.
Can anybody please suggest some other method to be used in a kld to sleep
When you put the kernel to sleep, what were you expecting to wake it up? :-)
A literal answer would be an interrupt, but in many contexts, such as device drivers, tend to block receipt of new interrupts while servicing the existing one. Regardless, there is a critical design methodology involved: you shouldn't ever block or busy-wait in the kernel, at least if you can possibly avoid it. Look into continuations and performing a context swap to a runnable process until the next interrupt happens and your device driver can make more progress.
-- -Chuck
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