called an interrupt handler (or an interrupt service routine, ISR) to deal with the event. This interruption is often temporary, allowing the software to resume...

after the interrupt is serviced. A software interrupt is a message to a process that an event has occurred. This contrasts with a hardware interrupt — which...

language instruction for x86 processors that generates a software interrupt. It takes the interrupt number formatted as a byte value. When written in assembly...

specific interrupt condition. Interrupt handlers are initiated by hardware interrupts, software interrupt instructions, or software exceptions, and are used...

256 interrupt vectors and the use of the IDT is triggered by three types of events: processor exceptions, hardware interrupts, and software interrupts, which...

interrupts are enabled. The Interrupt flag does not affect the handling of non-maskable interrupts (NMIs) or software interrupts generated by the INT instruction...

events. Installing a software interrupt vector allows it to be called by the currently running program. Installing a timer interrupt handler allows a TSR...

indicated in hardware by the registers in a programmable interrupt controller, or in software by a bitmask or integer value and source code of threads...

execute the BIOS interrupt calls in the Virtual 8086 mode, but only for OS booting) to access up to 4GB memory. In all computers, software instructions control...

all handle interrupts in a similar fashion. There are three hardware interrupt signals common to all 65xx processors and one software interrupt, the BRK...

in a table of interrupt vectors. Each entry of the interrupt vector table, called an interrupt vector, is the address of an interrupt handler (also known...

In computing, a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) is a hardware interrupt that standard interrupt-masking techniques in the system cannot ignore. It typically...

an inter-processor interrupt (IPI), also known as a shoulder tap, is a special type of interrupt by which one processor may interrupt another processor...

In a computer, an interrupt request (or IRQ) is a hardware signal sent to the processor that temporarily stops a running program and allows a special...

extensions. INT is an x86 instruction that triggers a software interrupt, and 13hex is the interrupt number (as a hexadecimal value) being called. Modern...

Inter-processor interrupt (IPI) Interrupt latency Non-maskable interrupt (NMI) IRQL (Windows) "Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual...

DOS-compatible operating systems. Most calls to the DOS API are invoked using software interrupt 21h (INT 21h). By calling INT 21h with a subfunction number in the...

no possibility of conflicting with any existing software. A special BIOS routine – software interrupt 0x15, subfunction 0x85 – was added to signal the...

destination operands are swapped, among many other differences.) Using the software interrupt 21h instruction to call the MS-DOS operating system for output to...

implement this is to use a software interrupt or trap. Interrupts transfer control to the operating system kernel, so software simply needs to set up some...

is usually not changed for a converted program), and executing a software interrupt, INT #224. The result is returned in the AL register if it is a byte...

(often less than 1 ppm). Software can do the math to make these into accurate RTCs. The hardware timer can produce a periodic interrupt, e.g. 50 Hz, to mimic...

from exception, i.e. an interrupt), TRAP (trigger a software exception similar to software interrupt), CHK (a conditional software exception) Branch: Bcc...

is usually not changed for a converted program), and executing a software interrupt, INT #224. The result is returned in the AL register if it is a byte...

ways of exception handling although they may be interrelated, e.g. a CPU interrupt could be turned into an OS signal. Some exceptions, especially hardware...

computing, Intel's Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC) is a family of programmable interrupt controllers. As its name suggests, the APIC...

exceptions. For some IA-32 versions of the kernel, one example of such a software interrupt handler (of which there are many) is in its IDT table entry 2E16 (hexadecimal;...

higher priority interrupt. Windows maps not only hardware interrupt levels to its internal interrupt table but also maps software interrupts. The mappings...

| | | | '------. <user> <system> <nice> <idle> <IOWait> <hardware/software interrupt> <steal time> MiB Mem : 1031911.+total, 368915.2 free, 172285.0 used...

contexts Software interrupt, an interrupt routine in a computer operating system SWI, an assembler mnemonic to perform a software interrupt on the ARM...