Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Q: x86 interrupt arrival after cli | Date | Thu, 16 May 2002 14:32:19 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Quick question for the x86 gurus: > > If a hardware interrupt arrives within a spin_lock_irqsave & > spin_unlock_irqrestore will the interrupt handler associated with said > interrupt be called immediately after the spinlock is released? =20
It will be called as soon as the cpu hardware gets around to it - which should be just after the irq mask flag is cleared. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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