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From: helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE (Wolfgang Helbig)
Subject: [TUHS] re: Raise of interrupt level necessary
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:52:22 +0100 (MET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212151154.gBFBsdb02344@bsd.korb> (raw)

>Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:27:40 -0800

Michael Davidson wrote:
>If you think that the "rule" is "no ISR can touch user space while
>interrupting a kernel process", then it is display() that breaks
>the rule.

The point is, that this rule leads to somewhat simpler and therefore
better code -- breaking the rule calls for some justification.
Calling display() from the clock-ISR is the only place where an ISR does
not conform to this rule.


Greetings

Wolfgang Helbig




             reply	other threads:[~2002-12-15  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-15  9:52 Wolfgang Helbig [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-16 21:43 Ian King
2002-12-14  8:47 Wolfgang Helbig
2002-12-14 23:27 ` Michael Davidson
2002-12-13  6:04 Dennis Ritchie

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