disable_irq(9)

disable_irq9

Disable an irq and wait for completion

Usage

void disable_irq(unsigned int irq);

Arguments

irq

Interrupt to disable

Overview

Disable the selected interrupt line. Enables and Disables are nested. This function waits for any pending IRQ handlers for this interrupt to complete before returning. If you use this function while holding a resource the IRQ handler may need you will deadlock.

This function may be called - with care - from IRQ context.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9

Authors

Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

Author.

Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

Author.

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.