5.10.4 初始化定时器中断
回到start_kernel,612行time_init函数:
void __init time_init(void) { late_time_init = x86_late_time_init; } |
函数x86_late_time_init实际上是初始化tsc时钟源。在time_init中只是把该函数的地址赋给全局变量late_time_init,以后某个时刻肯定会调用它的,这里先提前详细分析一下他:
static __init void x86_late_time_init(void) { x86_init.timers.timer_init(); tsc_init(); } |
x86_init.timers.timer_init实际是函数hpet_time_init,来自文件kernel/timer.c:
101 void __init hpet_time_init(void) 102 { 103 if (!hpet_enable()) 104 setup_pit_timer(); 105 setup_default_timer_irq(); 106} |
由于我们没有配置CONFIG_HPET_TIMER,所以103行hpet_enable返回0,调用104行的函数setup_pit_timer,位于arch/x86/kernel/i8253.c:
104void __init setup_pit_timer(void) 105{ 106 /* 107 * Start pit with the boot cpu mask and make it global after the 108 * IO_APIC has been initialized. 109 */ 110 pit_ce.cpumask = cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()); 111 pit_ce.mult = div_sc(CLOCK_TICK_RATE, NSEC_PER_SEC, pit_ce.shift); 112 pit_ce.max_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(0x7FFF, &pit_ce); 113 pit_ce.min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(0xF, &pit_ce); 114 115 clockevents_register_device(&pit_ce); 116 global_clock_event = &pit_ce; 117} |
整个函数的115行之前都是在通过汇编指令初始化全局变量pit_ce,这个clock_event_device类型的变量在编译的时候已经被初始化成了:
static struct clock_event_device pit_ce = { .name = "pit", .features = CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERIODIC | CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT, .set_mode = init_pit_timer, .set_next_event = pit_next_event, .shift = 32, .irq = 0, }; |
我们看到它的irq号为0,也就是对应32号中断描述符表项,即interrupt[0]处理函数。115行把它注册到通知链和clockevent_devices链表中:
void clockevents_register_device(struct clock_event_device *dev) { unsigned long flags; ……//一些调试代码 raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&clockevents_lock, flags); list_add(&dev->list, &clockevent_devices); clockevents_do_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_ADD, dev); clockevents_notify_released(); raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clockevents_lock, flags); } |
最后将全局global_clock_event设置成这个定时器,然后回到hpet_time_init中,105行,调用setup_default_timer_irq():
void __init setup_default_timer_irq(void) { setup_irq(0, &irq0); } static struct irqaction irq0 = { .handler = timer_interrupt, .flags = IRQF_DISABLED | IRQF_NOBALANCING | IRQF_IRQPOLL | IRQF_TIMER, .name = "timer" }; |
很简单,调用setup_irq把interrupt[0]对应的处理函数设置成timer_interrupt。至于随后如何处理的,请查看博客“定时器中断”
http://blog.csdn.net/yunsongice/archive/2010/03/07/5354137.aspx