Re: how do we block interrupts?

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Mon, 12 Nov 2001 08:24:00 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Sureshkumar Kamalanathan wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have added a function inside kernel in netif_rx(). I want to block
> all the ethernet interrupts till this function is executed.
> How do we block and unblock the interrupts?
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Regards,
> Sureshkumar K.

Like line 1002 of ../linux/net/core/dev.c

spin_lock_irqsave(&netdev_fc_lock, flags);
blocked_code();
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&netdev_fc_lock, flags);

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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