Regarding threaded irq and normal irq

[Peter Teoh]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:48 PM, sandeep kumar <coolsandyforyou at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> HI all,
>
> I want to know whether threaded_irq will be in interrupt context or process context.
> I heard they replace workqueues. But i dont know which context they will be running in.
>
> Any furthur references where i get more info..

Frankly I am not sure, but after reading Documentation/gpio.txt - where it says:

Accessing such GPIOs requires a context which may sleep,  for example
a threaded IRQ handler, and those accessors must be used instead of
spinlock-safe accessors without the cansleep() name suffix.

we can immediately deduced that threaded IRQ handler is
sleepable/blocking-allowed, and therefore process context.

Correct?
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