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SubjectRe: linux interrupt handling problem


On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
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> I can find no requirement that sti() in interrupts actually does anything.
> It seems quite permissible for it to be a non inside of an IRQ handler or
> to only lower the level to the current irq level

That is in fact what Linux/SMP does in various situations: a "sti()" in an
interrupt handler on SMP/i386 will be just a "local" sti(), while ir in
normal situations will be a "global" sti().

Linus


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