From: Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
To: Ukil a <ukil_a@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need help in understanding x86 syscall
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:41:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1E3DJm-0000jy-0B@be1.lrz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4Ae73-6Mm-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
Ukil a <ukil_a@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Now I had the doubt that if the the syscall
> implementation is very large will the scheduling and
> other interrupts be blocked for the whole time till
> the process returns from the ISR (because in an ISR by
> default the interrupts are disabled unless “sti” is
> called explicitly)?
According to my documentation it isn't. A software interrupt is a far call
with an extra pushf, and a hardware interrupt is protected against recursion
by the PIC, not by an interrupt flag.
--
Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.
next parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-11 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-08-11 13:41 ` Bodo Eggert [this message]
2005-08-11 14:04 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-08-11 14:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-11 15:13 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-08-11 15:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-11 15:28 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-08-11 15:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-11 16:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-11 16:31 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-08-11 16:59 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-08-11 17:10 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-08-11 17:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-11 17:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-11 17:57 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-08-11 17:59 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-11 18:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-11 19:58 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-11 20:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-12 19:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-08-11 17:46 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-08-11 18:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-11 18:21 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-08-11 19:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-11 20:39 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-08-12 11:29 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-08-11 17:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-12 5:04 ` Jeff Carr
2005-08-12 5:30 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-08-12 10:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-12 10:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-11 14:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-11 23:25 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-08-11 5:39 Ukil a
2005-08-11 13:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-11 15:52 ` Zachary Amsden
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