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> > Yes, on some implementations there can be other conditions that > > make a decrementer exception go away; there is no contradiction > > here (thankfully). My wording was sloppy. > > Some CPUs have the DEC exceptions basically edge triggered (yeah I know for example? > it sucks). That's why, among others, the IRQ soft-disable code has code > to re-trigger DEC exceptions ASAP (by setting it to 1.. note that we > could probably use 0 here, we've been a bit conservative). - 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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