Hi, On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 05:42:25PM -0700, Chen Tian wrote:

As confirmed by Udo, I thought the vector of an IO-APIC pin is the one used to index idt, which is from 0x20-0x37. But I just checked the idt using kernel debugger and found that many entries between 0x20 and 0x37 are marked as reserved. Several defined ones can be found in entry.S. However, I noticed that 48 entries from 0x50 to 0x7f are actually defined. Are those for the 48 pins in my two IO-APICs? Why have the vectors changed? And where can I found the corresponding CPU interrupt handlers?

IDT vector allocation is as follows: - 0..0x1f: CPU Exceptions. Vectors cannot be modified by user space. - 0x20..0x2f: PIC/IO-APIC IRQs 0..0xf. - 0x30..0x3f: L4 System calls or reserved. - 0x40..Irq_pin_msi::Vector_offs(0x50)-1: PIC/IO-APIC IRQs 0x10..0x1f - Irq_pin_msi::Vector_offs(0x50)..APIC_IRQ_BASE(0x90)-0x11: Usable for MSI/MSI-X IRQs starting at zero or for PIC/IO-APIC irqs starting at 0x20. - APIC_IRQ_BASE-0x10..APIC_IRQ_BASE+0xf: Reserved for APIC internal use (APIC timer, IPIs etc.). If you have two IO-APICs, i.e. 0x30 GSIs and you want to use MSI/MSIX, you need to change APIC_IRQ_BASE and Irq_pin_msi::Vector_offs to avoid IDT slot conflicts.

Another thing that confuses me is that th function "irq_interrupt" in file "dirq-ia32-ux.cpp". Where does it get called? I found one call site in entry.S, which seems to use an interrupt number (int - 0x20) as the first parameter. But why this number is used as a pointer that pointing to an irq object?

The normal path to irq_interrupt is via the code generated in Entry_code::setup(). The path generated by the INTERRUPT define in entry.S appears to be a buggy, AFAICS. regards Christian