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操作系统负责管理硬件设备，为了使系统和硬件设备的协同工作不降低机器性能，系统和硬件的通信使用中断的机制，也就是让硬件在需要的时候向内核发出信号，这样使得内核不用去轮询设备而导致做很多无用功。
中断使得硬件可以发出通知给处理器，硬件设备生成中断的时候并不考虑与处理器的时钟同步，中断可以随时产生。也就是说，内核随时可能因为新到来的中断而被打断。当接收到一个中断后，中断控制器会给处理器发送一个电信号，处理器检测到该信号便中断自己当前工作而处理中断。
在响应一个中断时，内核会执行一个函数，该函数叫做中断处理程序或中断服务例程（ISR）。中断处理程序运行与中断上下文，中断上下文中执行的代码不可阻塞，应该快速执行，这样才能保证尽快恢复被中断的代码的执行。中断处理程序是管理硬件驱动的驱动程序的组成部分，如果设备使用中断，那么相应的驱动程序就注册一个中断处理程序。
在驱动程序中,通常使用request_irq()来注册中断处理程序。该函数在文件<include/linux/interrupt.h>中声明：
extern int __must_check
request_irq(unsigned int irq, irq_handler_t handler, unsigned long flags,
const char *name, void *dev);
第一个参数为要分配的中断号；第二个参数为指向中断处理程序的指针；第三个参数为中断处理标志。该函数实现如下：
static inline int __must_check
request_irq(unsigned int irq, irq_handler_t handler, unsigned long flags,
const char *name, void *dev)
{
return request_threaded_irq(irq, handler, NULL, flags, name, dev);
}
int request_threaded_irq(unsigned int irq, irq_handler_t handler,
irq_handler_t thread_fn, unsigned long irqflags,
const char *devname, void *dev_id)
{
struct irqaction *action;
struct irq_desc *desc;
int retval;
/*
* handle_IRQ_event() always ignores IRQF_DISABLED except for
* the _first_ irqaction (sigh). That can cause oopsing, but
* the behavior is classified as "will not fix" so we need to
* start nudging drivers away from using that idiom.
*/
if ((irqflags & (IRQF_SHARED|IRQF_DISABLED)) ==
(IRQF_SHARED|IRQF_DISABLED)) {
pr_warning(
"IRQ %d/%s: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs\n",
irq, devname);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
/*
* Lockdep wants atomic interrupt handlers:
*/
irqflags |= IRQF_DISABLED;
#endif
/*
* Sanity-check: shared interrupts must pass in a real dev-ID,
* otherwise we'll have trouble later trying to figure out
* which interrupt is which (messes up the interrupt freeing
* logic etc).
*/
if ((irqflags & IRQF_SHARED) && !dev_id)
return -EINVAL;
desc = irq_to_desc(irq);
if (!desc)
return -EINVAL;
if (desc->status & IRQ_NOREQUEST)
return -EINVAL;
if (!handler) {
if (!thread_fn)
return -EINVAL;
handler = irq_default_primary_handler;
}
//分配一个irqaction
action = kzalloc(sizeof(struct irqaction), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!action)
return -ENOMEM;
action->handler = handler;
action->thread_fn = thread_fn;
action->flags = irqflags;
action->name = devname;
action->dev_id = dev_id;
chip_bus_lock(irq, desc);
//将创建并初始化完在的action加入desc
retval = __setup_irq(irq, desc, action);
chip_bus_sync_unlock(irq, desc);
if (retval)
kfree(action);
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ
if (irqflags & IRQF_SHARED) {
/*
* It's a shared IRQ -- the driver ought to be prepared for it
* to happen immediately, so let's make sure....
* We disable the irq to make sure that a 'real' IRQ doesn't
* run in parallel with our fake.
*/
unsigned long flags;
disable_irq(irq);
local_irq_save(flags);
handler(irq, dev_id);
local_irq_restore(flags);
enable_irq(irq);
}
#endif
return retval;
}
下面看一下中断处理程序的实例，以rtc驱动程序为例，代码位于<drivers/char/rtc.c>中。当RTC驱动装载时，rtc_init()函数会被调用来初始化驱动程序，包括注册中断处理函数：
/*
* XXX Interrupt pin #7 in Espresso is shared between RTC and
* PCI Slot 2 INTA# (and some INTx# in Slot 1).
*/
if (request_irq(rtc_irq, rtc_interrupt, IRQF_SHARED, "rtc",
(void *)&rtc_port)) {
rtc_has_irq = 0;
printk(KERN_ERR "rtc: cannot register IRQ %d\n", rtc_irq);
return -EIO;
}
处理程序函数
rtc_interrupt()：
/*
* A very tiny interrupt handler. It runs with IRQF_DISABLED set,
* but there is possibility of conflicting with the set_rtc_mmss()
* call (the rtc irq and the timer irq can easily run at the same
* time in two different CPUs). So we need to serialize
* accesses to the chip with the rtc_lock spinlock that each
* architecture should implement in the timer code.
* (See ./arch/XXXX/kernel/time.c for the set_rtc_mmss() function.)
*/
static irqreturn_t rtc_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
{
/*
* Can be an alarm interrupt, update complete interrupt,
* or a periodic interrupt. We store the status in the
* low byte and the number of interrupts received since
* the last read in the remainder of rtc_irq_data.
*/
spin_lock(&rtc_lock); //保证rtc_irq_data不被SMP机器上其他处理器同时访问
rtc_irq_data += 0x100;
rtc_irq_data &= ~0xff;
if (is_hpet_enabled()) {
/*
* In this case it is HPET RTC interrupt handler
* calling us, with the interrupt information
* passed as arg1, instead of irq.
*/
rtc_irq_data |= (unsigned long)irq & 0xF0;
} else {
rtc_irq_data |= (CMOS_READ(RTC_INTR_FLAGS) & 0xF0);
}
if (rtc_status & RTC_TIMER_ON)
mod_timer(&rtc_irq_timer, jiffies + HZ/rtc_freq + 2*HZ/100);
spin_unlock(&rtc_lock);
/* Now do the rest of the actions */
spin_lock(&rtc_task_lock); //避免rtc_callback出现系统情况，RTC驱动允许注册一个回调函数在每个RTC中断到来时执行。
if (rtc_callback)
rtc_callback->func(rtc_callback->private_data);
spin_unlock(&rtc_task_lock);
wake_up_interruptible(&rtc_wait);
kill_fasync(&rtc_async_queue, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
return IRQ_HANDLED;
}
在内核中，中断的旅程开始于预定义入口点，这类似于系统调用。对于每条中断线，处理器都会跳到对应的一个唯一的位置。这样，内核就可以知道所接收中断的IRQ号了。初始入口点只是在栈中保存这个号，并存放当前寄存器的值(这些值属于被中断的任务)；然后，内核调用函数do_IRQ().从这里开始，大多数中断处理代码是用C写的。do_IRQ()的声明如下：
unsigned int do_IRQ(struct pt_regs regs)
因为C的调用惯例是要把函数参数放在栈的顶部，因此pt_regs结构包含原始寄存器的值，这些值是以前在汇编入口例程中保存在栈上的。中断的值也会得以保存，所以，do_IRQ()可以将它提取出来，X86的代码为：
int irq = regs.orig_eax & 0xff
计算出中断号后，do_IRQ()对所接收的中断进行应答，禁止这条线上的中断传递。在普通的PC机器上，这些操作是由mask_and_ack_8259A()来完成的，该函数由do_IRQ()调用。接下来，do_IRQ()需要确保在这条中断线上有一个有效的处理程序，而且这个程序已经启动但是当前没有执行。如果这样的话， do_IRQ()就调用handle_IRQ_event()来运行为这条中断线所安装的中断处理程序，函数位于<kernel/irq/handle.c>:
/**
* handle_IRQ_event - irq action chain handler
* @irq: the interrupt number
* @action: the interrupt action chain for this irq
*
* Handles the action chain of an irq event
*/
irqreturn_t handle_IRQ_event(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *action)
{
irqreturn_t ret, retval = IRQ_NONE;
unsigned int status = 0;
//如果没有设置IRQF_DISABLED，将CPU中断打开，应该尽量避免中断关闭情况，本地中断关闭情况下会导致中断丢失。
if (!(action->flags & IRQF_DISABLED))
local_irq_enable_in_hardirq();
do { //遍历运行中断处理程序
trace_irq_handler_entry(irq, action);
ret = action->handler(irq, action->dev_id);
trace_irq_handler_exit(irq, action, ret);
switch (ret) {
case IRQ_WAKE_THREAD:
/*
* Set result to handled so the spurious check
* does not trigger.
*/
ret = IRQ_HANDLED;
/*
* Catch drivers which return WAKE_THREAD but
* did not set up a thread function
*/
if (unlikely(!action->thread_fn)) {
warn_no_thread(irq, action);
break;
}
/*
* Wake up the handler thread for this
* action. In case the thread crashed and was
* killed we just pretend that we handled the
* interrupt. The hardirq handler above has
* disabled the device interrupt, so no irq
* storm is lurking.
*/
if (likely(!test_bit(IRQTF_DIED,
&action->thread_flags))) {
set_bit(IRQTF_RUNTHREAD, &action->thread_flags);
wake_up_process(action->thread);
}
/* Fall through to add to randomness */
case IRQ_HANDLED:
status |= action->flags;
break;
default:
break;
}
retval |= ret;
action = action->next;
} while (action);
if (status & IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM)
add_interrupt_randomness(irq);
local_irq_disable();//关中断
return retval;
}
前面说到中断应该尽快执行完，以保证被中断代码可以尽快的恢复执行。但事实上中断通常有很多工作要做，包括应答、重设硬件、数据拷贝、处理请求、发送请求等。为了求得平衡，内核把中断处理工作分成两半，中断处理程序是上半部——接收到中断就开始执行。能够稍后完成的工作推迟到下半部操作，下半部在合适的时机被开中段执行。例如网卡收到数据包时立即发出中断，内核执行网卡已注册的中断处理程序，此处工作就是通知硬件拷贝最新的网络数据包到内存，然后将控制权交换给系统之前被中断的任务，其他的如处理和操作数据包等任务被放到随后的下半部中去执行。下一节我们将了解中断处理的下半部。