Re: spurious 8259A interrupt

[Russell King]

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.

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Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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