[PATCH 2/2] talitos: Freescale integrated security engine (SEC) driver

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Sat May 31 05:41:17 EST 2008


Kim Phillips wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2008 22:09:04 +0400
> Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol at 2ka.mipt.ru> wrote:
>> Don't you want to protect against simultaneous access to register space
>> from different CPUs? Or it is single processor board only?
> 
> Doesn't linux mask the IRQ line for the interrupt currently being
> serviced, and on all processors?

Yes.  Could there be interference from non-interrupt driver code on 
another cpu (or interrupted code), though?

-Scott



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