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Daily Archives: August 16, 2011
Standalone Device Drivers in Linux Theodore Ts’o July 1, 1999
Linguistic defer Recommended Reading 1. Linux Kernel In A Nutshell 2. Link to the above book at oreilly Website. 3. GNU Make Manual
bounded interrupt latencies
Connected From This We ensure bounded interrupt latencies by the standard approach of introducing a few, carefully placed, interrupt points. On detection of a pending interrupt, the kernel explicitly returns through the function call stack to the ker- nel/user boundary and responds to the interrupt. It then restarts the original operation, including reestablishing all the …
TERM signal ——–x a user space interrupt
Connected From This 1. kill command can be used to send TERM signal. 2. SIGTERM 15 Term Termination signal Signal is an user space interrupt. Sending a Signal The following system calls and library functions allow the caller to send a signal: raise(3) Sends a signal to the calling thread. kill(2) Sends a signal to …