On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Bruno E. O. Meneguele <[email protected]> wrote: > What > confused me for sometime was the 'atomic' vs 'interrupt' naming, but > after reading Robert's book it cames to the fact that they're the same.
Not exactly the same. Atomic means you're protected from some sort of interruption: e.g. you raise preemption counter and you're protected from scheduling, but you still may be interrupted, or you disable interrupts and you're protected from scheduling and interrupts, but there still may be an NMI. -- Thanks. -- Max _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
