[Barrelfish-users] Fwd: Interrupt Handlers

[Timothy Roscoe]

As Andrew says, the Barrelfish CPU driver processes all exceptions 
(whether hardware interrupts or traps) serially with interrupts 
disabled, unless it's idling.

Note that (like K42 and Psyche) Barrelfish uses upcall dispatch most of 
the time (think Scheduler Activations), so exit from an exception 
handler is typically a jump to a completely different IP/PC value from 
when that (or any other) exception occurred.

Note also that Barrelfish doesn't have any kernel threads - each CPU 
driver has a single, static, dedicated kernel stack.

Could you say a little more about what you mean?

  -- Mothy

On 13-08-01 05:32 AM, Piyus Kedia wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am working on dynamic binary translator. Please tell me if anybody
> know if in Barrelfish interrupted kernel PC is ever used in interrupt
> handlers?
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Piyus
>
>
>
>
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