A bit about interrupts

This is just an index to stuff.

• Hardware support
  • IRQ
  • APIC
  • IDT
• Nice references and presentations
  • Understanding the Linux Kernel (Chapter 4) by Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati
  • Interrupts and Exceptions presentation by Erich Nahum
  • Kernel APIs, Part 2: Deferrable functions, kernel tasklets, and work queues
  • I’ll Do It Later: Softirqs, Tasklets, Bottom Halves, Task Queues, Work Queues and Timers by Matthew Wilcox
• Some kernel source files
  • arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
  • arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c
  • kernel/softirq.c
  • include/linux/interrupt.h
  • include/linux/workqueue.h