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From: Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com>
To: krishna <krishna.c@globaledgesoft.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to understand flow of kernel code
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:27:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1102087667.28352.12.camel@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41B081AE.3000509@globaledgesoft.com>

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 09:09, krishna wrote:
> Hi Elladan,
> 
>     Thank you very much.
>     Can u tell me how can I start from an interrupt.

Look for the do_IRQ function.  Figure out how it's called, then figure
out what it does, and then figure out how the system is restored.  And
it's a bit more than just C code, so you'll need some understanding of
assembly for whichever architecture you're interested in.

Good luck.

josh


  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-03 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-03 15:09 krishna
2004-12-03 15:27 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-06 14:22 krishna
2004-12-06 18:49 ` Jon Masters
2004-12-02 18:28 Nick Warne
2004-12-02 19:13 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-12-02 19:48   ` Cal Peake
2004-12-02  4:46 krishna
2004-12-02  6:21 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-12-02 16:11 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-12-04 16:39   ` Manu Abraham
2004-12-04 14:51 ` Jon Masters
2004-12-27 20:22 ` David Eger

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