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<h2 class='titleHead'>The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide</h2>
<div class='author'><span class='ecrm-1200'>Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram, Jim Huang</span></div><br />
<div class='date'><span class='ecrm-1200'>December 9, 2022</span></div>
<div class='date'><span class='ecrm-1200'>December 11, 2022</span></div>
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</p><!-- l. 1844 --><p class='indent'> The way to implement this is to call
<code> <span class='ectt-1000'>request_irq()</span>
</code> to get your interrupt handler called when the relevant IRQ is received.
</p><!-- l. 1846 --><p class='indent'> In practice IRQ handling can be a bit more complex. Hardware is often
designed in a way that chains two interrupt controllers, so that all the IRQs
from interrupt controller B are cascaded to a certain IRQ from interrupt
controller A. Of course, that requires that the kernel finds out which IRQ it
really was afterwards and that adds overhead. Other architectures offer some
special, very low overhead, so called "fast IRQ" or FIQs. To take advantage of
them requires handlers to be written in assembler, so they do not really
</p><!-- l. 1846 --><p class='indent'> In practice IRQ handling can be a bit more complex. Hardware is often designed
in a way that chains two interrupt controllers, so that all the IRQs from
interrupt controller B are cascaded to a certain IRQ from interrupt controller A.
Of course, that requires that the kernel finds out which IRQ it really was
afterwards and that adds overhead. Other architectures offer some special,
very low overhead, so called "fast IRQ" or FIQs. To take advantage of them
requires handlers to be written in assembly language, so they do not really
fit into the kernel. They can be made to work similar to the others, but
after that procedure, they are no longer any faster than "common" IRQs.
SMP enabled kernels running on systems with more than one processor

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<h2 class='titleHead'>The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide</h2>
<div class='author'><span class='ecrm-1200'>Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram, Jim Huang</span></div><br />
<div class='date'><span class='ecrm-1200'>December 9, 2022</span></div>
<div class='date'><span class='ecrm-1200'>December 11, 2022</span></div>
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</p><!-- l. 1844 --><p class='indent'> The way to implement this is to call
<code> <span class='ectt-1000'>request_irq()</span>
</code> to get your interrupt handler called when the relevant IRQ is received.
</p><!-- l. 1846 --><p class='indent'> In practice IRQ handling can be a bit more complex. Hardware is often
designed in a way that chains two interrupt controllers, so that all the IRQs
from interrupt controller B are cascaded to a certain IRQ from interrupt
controller A. Of course, that requires that the kernel finds out which IRQ it
really was afterwards and that adds overhead. Other architectures offer some
special, very low overhead, so called "fast IRQ" or FIQs. To take advantage of
them requires handlers to be written in assembler, so they do not really
</p><!-- l. 1846 --><p class='indent'> In practice IRQ handling can be a bit more complex. Hardware is often designed
in a way that chains two interrupt controllers, so that all the IRQs from
interrupt controller B are cascaded to a certain IRQ from interrupt controller A.
Of course, that requires that the kernel finds out which IRQ it really was
afterwards and that adds overhead. Other architectures offer some special,
very low overhead, so called "fast IRQ" or FIQs. To take advantage of them
requires handlers to be written in assembly language, so they do not really
fit into the kernel. They can be made to work similar to the others, but
after that procedure, they are no longer any faster than "common" IRQs.
SMP enabled kernels running on systems with more than one processor