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> > good enough, but i have a query regarding this then. > On a 8K kernel stack system, doesn't interrupts share the stack associated > with the current process which was interrupted? Yes, I think so. > Doesn't interrupt steals the CPU slice time allocated to the running process > to run? I don't think so but I am not sure. > Doesn't it run in current process's context ? > No. I think the concept of process context is a higher-level logical concept. Though the interrupt share stack with the interrupted process, in my opinion it logically does not share the context with the process. > What am i missing here? > > Thanks > ~psr > But I do not see the exact relationship between your specific queries and the original question. Could you elaborate? - 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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