[PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri May 18 15:04:49 EST 2007
>
> Yes, on some implementations there can be other conditions that
> make a decrementer exception go away; there is no contradiction
> here (thankfully). My wording was sloppy.
Some CPUs have the DEC exceptions basically edge triggered (yeah I know
it sucks). That's why, among others, the IRQ soft-disable code has code
to re-trigger DEC exceptions ASAP (by setting it to 1.. note that we
could probably use 0 here, we've been a bit conservative).
Ben.
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