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  2. Interrupt flag - Wikipedia

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    The Interrupt flag (IF) is a flag bit in the CPU's FLAGS register, which determines whether or not the (CPU) will respond immediately to maskable hardware interrupts. [1] If the flag is set to 1 maskable interrupts are enabled. If reset (set to 0) such interrupts will be disabled until

  3. Non-maskable interrupt - Wikipedia

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    With regard to SPARC, the non-maskable interrupt (NMI), despite having the highest priority among interrupts, can be prevented from occurring through the use of an interrupt mask. [1] An NMI is often used when response time is critical or when an interrupt should never be disabled during normal system operation.

  4. Interrupts in 65xx processors - Wikipedia

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    The processor completes the current instruction but does not change the registers or memory in any way—the computational results of the completed instruction are discarded. An abort interrupt does not literally abort an instruction. [2] The program bank (PB, see above) is pushed to the stack.

  5. FLAGS register - Wikipedia

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    FLAGS registers can be moved from or to the stack. This is part of the job of saving and restoring CPU context, against a routine such as an interrupt service routine whose changes to registers should not be seen by the calling code. Here are the relevant instructions: The PUSHF and POPF instructions transfer the 16-bit FLAGS register.

  6. Interrupt handler - Wikipedia

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    In computer systems programming, an interrupt handler, also known as an interrupt service routine or ISR, is a special block of code associated with a specific interrupt condition. Interrupt handlers are initiated by hardware interrupts, software interrupt instructions, or software exceptions , and are used for implementing device drivers or ...

  7. Interrupt coalescing - Wikipedia

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    Interrupt coalescing, also known as interrupt moderation, [1] is a technique in which events which would normally trigger a hardware interrupt are held back, either until a certain amount of work is pending, or a timeout timer triggers. Used correctly, this technique can reduce interrupt load by up to an order of magnitude, while only incurring ...

  8. Control register - Wikipedia

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    Clock-comparator subclass mask 0 21 CPU-timer subclass mask 0 22 Service-signal subclass mask 0 24 Set to 1 0 25 Interrupt-key subclass mask 0 26 Set to 1 0 27 ETR subclass mask 0 28 Program-call-fast 0 29 Crypto control 1 0 Primary space-switch-event control 1 1-19 Primary segment-table origin 1 22 Primary subspace-group control 1 23

  9. Interrupt - Wikipedia

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    A hardware interrupt is a condition related to the state of the hardware that may be signaled by an external hardware device, e.g., an interrupt request (IRQ) line on a PC, or detected by devices embedded in processor logic (e.g., the CPU timer in IBM System/370), to communicate that the device needs attention from the operating system (OS) [7] or, if there is no OS, from the bare metal ...