Interrupt Handling Schemes in Operating Systems

Preface......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
1.2 Overview of Hardware and Software Interrupts......Page 5
1.3 Hardware of Interrupts in PC Compatible Systems......Page 8
1.4 Interrupt Acknowledge Cycle......Page 10
1.5 Interrupt Control Levels......Page 11
1.6.1 Interrupt Service Routine......Page 12
1.6.2 Interrupt Handling Initialization......Page 14
1.7 Interrupt Management Asynchronous Activities......Page 15
1.7.2 Mutual Exclusion Synchronization between Asynchronous Activities......Page 16
2.2.1 Non-preemptable Unix Kernel......Page 18
2.2.2 Conditional Synchronization Inside the Kernel......Page 19
2.2.3 Mutual Exclusion Synchronization Between Top and Bottom Halves......Page 20
2.3 Networked Operating Systems......Page 21
2.3.1 Interrupt Handling in Windows NT......Page 22
2.3.2 Interrupt Handling in Linux......Page 25
3.2 Interrupts as IPC (Microkernel Architecture)......Page 29
3.3 Interrupt Handling at User Level......Page 30
3.4 Model of Interrupts as Kernel Threads in Solaris 2.0......Page 31
3.5 Interrupts Handled as Threads in Real-Time Linux......Page 32
4.1 Introduction......Page 34
4.2 Interrupt Handling......Page 35
4.3 The Linux Input Driver Model......Page 36
5.1 Introduction......Page 38
5.3 Schedulable and Non-schedulable Entities......Page 39
5.4.2 Interrupt Latency Interference......Page 40
5.5 Other Issues in Interrupt Handling......Page 41
5.5.2 Incorporation of the Interrupt Cost to the Feasibility Analysis......Page 42
5.5.3 Interrupt Handling Overload......Page 43
6.2 Unified Interrupt Architecture......Page 44
6.3 Segmented Manager Architecture......Page 46
6.5 Integrated Mechanism for Tasks and Interrupts Handling......Page 48
Refs......Page 52