How to mask IRQ

eric.valette at free.fr eric.valette at free.fr
Wed Jun 1 13:03:17 UTC 2005


Quoting Sergei Organov <osv at topconrd.ru>:

> leonp at plris.com writes:
>

> Sorry, but I fail to see how it supposed to work if your IRQ handler is
> invoked when another IRQ handler is running. Your change to the
> ppc_cached_irq_mask on exit from your IRQ handler will be overwritten on
> return from another IRQ handler. Am I missing something?

This is exactly why manipulating masks within one interrupt handler
leads to non working code : what mask do you intend to restore and when?.

-- eric




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