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Subject: Re: Load interrupt code dynamically
From: Alan Cox <alan () lxorguk ! ukuu ! org ! uk>
Date: 2007-07-31 23:57:53
Message-ID: 20070801010304.757f4963 () the-village ! bc ! nu
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> dealing with the concurrency in the kernel. Interrupt is one of them.
Its extremely hard as you've probably noticed by now.
> My first question is, what are other interrupts in the kernel that can
> allow other interrupts
> to be issued? Second question is, how does the kernel switch between
The kernel IRQ handling is pretty flexible. A concious decision was made
many years ago not to try and limit it to do a pageable kernel as RAM was
far cheaper than the pain, and getting cheaper by the day.
> different interrupts? Last, any suggestion on how to change my current
> implementation to enable loading interrupt code dynamically?
Realistically - the one case it is done right now is by the mainframe
people, simply because the underlying hypervisor does it. You probably
have much more chance that way using a microkernel (real one not MACH)
underneath. Still a huge task.
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