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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.
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
On uni-processor systems, the simplest solution to achieve mutual exclusion is to disable interrupts during a process's critical section. This will prevent any interrupt service routines from running (effectively preventing a process from being preempted). Although this solution is effective, it leads to many problems.
The detection of a RESET signal causes the processor to enter a system initialization period of six clock cycles, after which it sets the interrupt request disable flag in the status register and loads the program counter with the values stored at the processor initialization vector ($00FFFC – $00FFFD) before commencing execution. [1]
The IRR specifies which interrupts are pending acknowledgement, and is typically a symbolic register which can not be directly accessed. The ISR register specifies which interrupts have been acknowledged, but are still waiting for an end of interrupt (EOI). The IMR specifies which interrupts are to be ignored and not acknowledged.
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 ...
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If set, enables support for the virtual interrupt flag (VIF) in virtual-8086 mode. 1: PVI: Protected-mode Virtual Interrupts: If set, enables support for the virtual interrupt flag (VIF) in protected mode. 2: TSD: Time Stamp Disable: If set, RDTSC instruction can only be executed when in ring 0, otherwise RDTSC can be used at any privilege ...