Re: Race condition in interrupt handling

Jan Stoess <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:11:32 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.micro-kernel.l4.l4ka.general
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On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:18:45AM -0500, Mai, Haohui wrote:
> Could you please give me a pointer that where the interrupt is
> disabled? I grep for disable_interrupts() in the kernel directory
> and I found it is not used at all.
> 

Interrupts aren't disabled explicitly; the tardware does it for you when entering the kernel.

-Jan
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