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Fix Typo
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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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% TODO: add some diagrams
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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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