Subject: Re: what is difference between interrupt context and process context?

From: Misbah khan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 02:43:07 -0800 (PST)

Interrupt context mean that there will not be scheduling taking place untill
and unless that task ends while in the process context every task gets the
CPU time 

Barisa Kisku-2 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What is difference between interrupt context and process
> context.Fromhardware(register context) view
> how they are different.In linux-2.6 interrupt stack is separate from
> kernel
> stack.How interrupt stack pointer
> is retrieved?How is the implementation in freescale ppc/powerpc.
> 
> please comment.
> 
> thanks in advance.
> 
> Barisa Kisku
> 
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