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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Robert_Hentosh@Dell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: spurious 8259A interrupt
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:16:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040319131608.A14431@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040319130609.GE2650@mail.shareable.org>; from jamie@shareable.org on Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:06:10PM +0000

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:06:10PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> For those rare occasions when an interrupt handler wants to re-enable
> interrupts (sti), _then_ it could mask the interrupt that called the handler.

Interrupt handlers generally run with the CPU interrupt disable flag
cleared, so other interrupts can be serviced.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-19 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-16 20:32 spurious 8259A interrupt Robert_Hentosh
2004-03-19 13:06 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-19 13:16   ` Russell King [this message]
2004-03-19 13:39     ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-19 14:04       ` Anton Blanchard
2004-03-19 14:56         ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-19 13:48   ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-19 14:39     ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-21 17:58     ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2004-03-22  9:12       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-03-22 12:29       ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-24 15:28         ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-24 15:50           ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-03-24 15:57           ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-19 13:28 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-03-19 22:01   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-03-22  9:02     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-03-22 21:16       ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-03-22 22:13         ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-22 23:09           ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-03-22 23:38             ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-23 10:32               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-03-23 10:42             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-03-23 21:10               ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-03-23 10:29           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-03-23 10:26         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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2004-03-16 18:35 Emmanuel Fleury

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