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Why disabling interrupts disables kernel preemption and how spin lock disables preemption

I am reading Linux Kernel Development recently, and I have a few questions related to disabling preemption. In the "Interrupt …

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What does Future.cancel() do if not interrupting?

From java docs on Future.cancel() boolean cancel(boolean mayInterruptIfRunning) Attempts to cancel execution of this task. This attempt will …

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Does the finally block execute if the thread running the function is interrupted?

If I have a function with a try/finally section, and the thread running it is interrupted while in the …

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Boost Thread - How to acknowledge interrupt

I have blocking task which will be performed by find_the_question() function. However, I do not want thread executing …

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When an Thread.interrupt() is called on some thread, what happens?

When an Thread.interrupt() is called on some thread, what happens to that thread?

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ARM Cortex M3 How do I determine the program counter value before a hard fault?

I have an embedded project using a STM32F103 (ARM Cortex M3), it is getting a occasionally getting hard fault …

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SPI Slave setup on STM32F4 board

I am trying to communicate between two STM32F4 discovery boards via SPI in Master & Slave configuration. I already …

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Interrupting blocked read

My program goes through a loop like this: ... while(1){ read(sockfd,buf,sizeof(buf)); ... } The read function blocks when it …

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Which context are softirq and tasklet in?

I know that there are process context and interrupt context but I don't understand when executing softirq or tasklet, which …

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How to Interrupt/Stop/End a hanging multi-threaded python program

I have a python program that implements threads like this: class Mythread(threading.Thread): def __init__(self, name, q): threading.…

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