Indraneel Mukherjee wrote:
Hi All,
I have a doubt regarding the execution of dynamic timer functions.
Are the interrupts disabled when the dynamic timer functions are
executed?
Yes, when servicing a dynamic timer interrupts are disabled to prevent
data corruption by other kernel control paths.
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