Re: How to understand flow of kernel code

[Josh Boyer]

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

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