Re: Q: x86 interrupt arrival after cli

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 16 May 2002 14:32:19 +0100 (BST)

> Quick question for the x86 gurus:
>
> If a hardware interrupt arrives within a spin_lock_irqsave &
> spin_unlock_irqrestore will the interrupt handler associated with said
> interrupt be called immediately after the spinlock is released? =20

It will be called as soon as the cpu hardware gets around to it - which
should be just after the irq mask flag is cleared.
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