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• The
priority
of interrupts is defined in
. Entry
A
is higher priority than
interrupt
B
, if entry
A
appears at a higher location in the table than entry
B
.
Interrupt priority is used to select interrupts that require urgent service over less
urgent interrupt requests.
• Interrupt
delivery
is
enabled
when software programs the processor to accept
any unmasked interrupt. INITs delivery is enabled when PSR.mc is 0. PMIs delivery
is enabled when PSR.ic is 1. For Itanium architecture-based code execution,
external interrupts delivery is enabled when PSR.i is 1.
•
Masking
applies only to external interrupts. Unmasked interrupts are those
external interrupts of higher priority than the highest priority external interrupt
vector currently in-service (if any) and whose priority level is higher than the
current priority masking level specified by the TPR register (see
Register (TPR – CR66)” on page 2:123
). Masking conditions are defined in
. PSR.i does not affect masking of external interrupts.
shows how this terminology is applied to the handling of a PAL-based
shows the handing of a vectored external interrupt
n
.
Both figures show the different states and transitions interrupts go through.
Figure 5-4.
PAL-based Interrupt States
INACTIVE
PENDING
CPU Receives
Interrupt
PAL Firmware
Completes
Pending = 0
Pending = 1
Interrupt
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