On 8/27/05, Gaurav Dhiman <gaurav4lkg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Are you sure of it that cli()/sti() disable the interrupts on all > processors, i think it only disables the interrupts on local CPU. Well > the cli() function is defined as follows in include/linux/interrupt.h Yup, my bad. kernel 2.6 and above do not allow global interrupt disables. Thanks for pointing it out. ./h -- Operating Systems and Computer Architecture Research - University of Cincinnati http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~mohapth -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
