Disabling Interrupts Before Enabling Them

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Disabling Interrupts Before Enabling Them

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While implementing a memory allocator (using liballoc) I noticed that the lock and unlock functions need to disable interrupts. I know that once I am in need of these functions I will have already enabled interrupts. However, I became curious as to what would happen if I were to disable interrupts without first enabling them. Would a triple fault be triggered or would the CPU just overlook the request?
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Re: Disabling Interrupts Before Enabling Them

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Did you try looking in the Intel or AMD manuals?
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