On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:21:44AM +0100, Erwin Triepels wrote:
> Does anyone know whether linux interrupts (i.e. keyboard, hard-disk-IDE0, PS2/mouse, 
>ehternet and above all the timer interrupts) always can be interrupted by real-time 
>interrupts? Normally the linux timer ISR is started with the  SA-INTERRUPT flag which 
>means NO interrupts.
> 

Yes.

> - Has anyone experience with enabling interrupts in a real-time ISR (normally all 
>interrupts are disabled). I fear deadlocks with the real-time Timer-interrupts or 
>very long interrupt response times. 

Don't do it. If the ISR takes a long time, wake up a thread to do the
work. 
It is always an error to enable interrupts during the execution of a RTL
RT interrupt handlers.


> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Erwin Triepels
> 
> 
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