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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Lijun Chen <chenli@nortelnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: exception priority for BCM1250
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:38:02PM -0500, Lijun Chen wrote:

> Further to my last email, another question is if multiple simultaneous 
> exceptions occur, or kernel is
> handling an exception, another exception occurs, how linux handles this?

Not at all.  Exceptions have priorities and so simply the highest
priority will be taken and therefore handled.

  Ralf