Re: Why can't we sleep in an ISR?

[Dong Feng]

> good enough, but i have a query regarding this then.
> On a 8K kernel stack system, doesn't interrupts share the stack associated
> with the current process which was interrupted?

Yes, I think so.

> Doesn't interrupt steals the CPU slice time allocated to the running process
> to run?

I don't think so but I am not sure.

> Doesn't it run in current process's context ?

No. I think the concept of process context is a higher-level logical
concept. Though the interrupt share stack with the interrupted
process, in my opinion it logically does not share the context with
the process.

> What am i missing here?
>
> Thanks
> ~psr


But I do not see the exact relationship between your specific queries
and the original question. Could you elaborate?
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