Subversion Repositories HelenOS-doc

Compare Revisions

Ignore whitespace Rev 132 → Rev 133

/design/trunk/src/ch_hardware.xml
72,7 → 72,7
 
<para>It might be desirable for a device driver to temporarily disable
preemption. Tasks that can do this are required to have the
CAP_PREEMPT_CONTROL capability. Preemption could be theoretically disabled
<constant>CAP_PREEMPT_CONTROL</constant> capability. Preemption could be theoretically disabled
by disabling interrupts on the current processor, but disabling preemption
is more lightweight as interrupt processing remains enabled.</para>
</section>