On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Monday, 11 September 2000 at 17:44:43 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >> Independently of that, we need to be able to survive a spurious
> >> interrupt on any IRQ.
> >
> > Not really independent. Spurious interrupts on "any" IRQ can't
> > happen, interrupts without a handler are masked.
>
> Right, I had forgotten that. But it's still defensive programming to
> DTRT if we get one, especially if it doesn't cost anything.
It's a waste of time to check your own args, and not free here.
> > Spurious interrupts on irq7/irq15 can happen because normal masking
> > by the irq7/irq15 bit in the ICU doesn't apply (I think they can
> > happen even if all bits in the ICU mask are set). They are like an
> > NMI in this respect.
>
> Strange. Does this still happen on modern hardware?
Modern ICUs are hopefully bug for bug compatible with old ones.
> > The old code accidentally had some defense against nested spurious
> > interrupts. Masking in the ICU doesn't work, but masking in `cpl'
> > happens to do the right thing (actually the same wrong thing as for
> > non-nested spurious interrupts).
>
> We don't have a cpl any more.
That's why I wrote "the old code ... had ...".
Bruce
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