Chapter 14 : Kernel Activities

14.1 Interrupts

Interrupt Types

Hardware IRQs

Processing Interrupts

Data Structures

Interrupt Flow Handling

Initializing and Reserving IRQs

Servicing IRQs

14.2 Software Interrupts

Starting SoftIRQ Processing

The SoftIRQ Daemon

14.3 Tasklets

Generating Tasklets

Registering Tasklets

Executing Tasklets

14.4 Wait Queues and Completions

Wait Queues

Completions

Work Queues

Summary