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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: bart@jukie.net (Bart Trojanowski)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: x86 interrupt arrival after cli
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:32:19 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E178LMh-0004FK-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020515202720.D15996@jukie.net> from "Bart Trojanowski" at May 15, 2002 08:27:20 PM

> 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. 

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-16 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-16  0:27 Bart Trojanowski
2002-05-16 13:32 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-05-16 13:39   ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-05-16 15:55 ` Ion Badulescu
2002-05-16 17:11   ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-05-17 17:57     ` Bill Davidsen

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