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The interrupt routine is initialized with space below

Wptr. The Iptr and Status word for the routine

are stored there permanently. This should be programmed before the

Wptr is written into the vector

table. The behavior of the interrupt differs depending on the priority of the CPU when the interrupt

occurs.

When an interrupt occurs when the CPU was running at high priority, and the interrupt is set at a

higher priority than the high priority process queue, the CPU saves the current process state

(

Areg, Breg, Creg, Wptr, Iptr and Status) into the workspace of the interrupt handler. The value

HandlerWptr, which is stored in the interrupt controller, points to the top of this workspace. The

values of

Iptr and Status to be used by the interrupt handler are loaded from this workspace and

starts executing the handler. The value of

Wptr is then set to the bottom of this save area.

When an interrupt occurs when the CPU was running at high priority, and the interrupt is set at a

lower priority than the high priority process queue, no action is taken and the interrupt waits in a

queue until all higher priority interrupts have been serviced (see section 5.4).

Interrupts always take priority over low priority processes. When an interrupt occurs when the CPU

was idle or running at low priority, the

Status is saved. This indicates that no valid process is run-

ning (Null Status). The interrupted processes (low priority process) state is stored in shadow regis-

ters. This state can be accessed via the

ldshadow (load shadow registers) and stshadow (store

shadow registers) instructions. The interrupt handler is then run at high priority.

When the interrupt routine has completed it must adjust

Wptr to the value at the start of the han-

dler code and then execute the

iret (interrupt return) instruction. This restores the interrupted state

from the interrupt handler structure and signals to the interrupt controller that the interrupt has

completed. The processor will then continue from where it was before being interrupted.

5.3

Interrupt latency

The interrupt latency is dependent on the data being accessed and the position of the interrupt

handler and the interrupted process. This allows systems to be designed with the best trade-off use

of fast internal memory and interrupt latency.

5.4

Preemption and interrupt priority

Each interrupt channel has an implied priority ﬁxed by its place in the interrupt vector table. All

interrupts will cause scheduled processes of lower priority to be suspended and the interrupt han-

dler started. Once an interrupt has been sent from the controller to the CPU the controller keeps a

record of the current executing interrupt priority. This is only cleared when the interrupt handler

executes a return from interrupt (

iret) instruction. Interrupts of a lower priority arriving will be

blocked by the interrupt controller until the interrupt priority has descended to such a level that the

routine will execute. An interrupt of a higher priority than the currently executing handler will be

passed to the CPU and cause the current handler to be suspended until the higher priority interrupt

is serviced.

In this way interrupts can be nested and a higher priority interrupt will always pre-empt a lower pri-

ority one. Deep nesting and placing frequent interrupts at high priority can result in a system where

low priority interrupts are never serviced or the controller and CPU time are consumed in nesting

interrupt priorities and not executing the interrupt handlers.

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