A bus prioritizes a device interrupt at a bus-interrupt level. The bus interrupt level is then mapped to a processor-interrupt level. A bus interrupt level that maps to a CPU interrupt priority above the scheduler priority level is called a high-level interrupt. High-level interrupt handlers are restricted to calling the following DDI interfaces:
mutex_enter(9F) and mutex_exit(9F) on a mutex that is initialized with an interrupt priority associated with the high-level interrupt
The following DDI get and put routines: ddi_get8(9F), ddi_put8(9F), ddi_get16(9F), ddi_put16(9F), ddi_get32(9F), ddi_put32(9F), ddi_get64(9F), and ddi_put64(9F).
A bus-interrupt level by itself does not determine whether a device interrupts at a high level. A particular bus-interrupt level can map to a high-level interrupt on one platform, but map to an ordinary interrupt on another platform.
A driver is not required to support devices that have high-level interrupts. However, the driver is required to check the interrupt level. If the interrupt priority is greater than or equal to the highest system priority, the interrupt handler runs in high-level interrupt context. In this case, the driver can fail to attach, or the driver can use a two-level scheme to handle interrupts. For more information, see Handling High-Level Interrupts.