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lines changed Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -1559,8 +1559,8 @@ \subsection{Interrupt Handlers}
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This means that certain things are not allowed in the interrupt handler itself, because the system is in an unknown state.
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Linux kernel solves the problem by splitting interrupt handling into two parts.
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- The first part executes right away and mask the interrupt line.
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- Hardware interrupts must be handled quick , and that is why we need the second part to handle the heavy work deferred from a interrupt handler.
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+ The first part executes right away and masks the interrupt line.
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+ Hardware interrupts must be handled quickly , and that is why we need the second part to handle the heavy work deferred from an interrupt handler.
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Historically, BH (Linux naming for \textit {Bottom Halves }) statistically book-keeps the deferred functions.
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\textbf {Softirq } and its higher level abstraction, \textbf {Tasklet }, replace BH since Linux 2.3.
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