Interrupts

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The purpose of this page is to document how Xen sets up and uses interrupts. It is a work in progress, and to a certain extent dynamic as patches modify the code. However, the contents of it is accurate of November 14, 2011.

IDT vector entries

Refer to xen/include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h

Vector Ranges

Section Range Use
Exceptions 0x00 - 0x1f Architecturally reserved
Dynamic IRQs 0x20 - 0xdf Free for assignment for devices
Legacy 0xe0 - 0xef Reserved range for PIC before switching to APIC
High Priority 0xf0 - 0xff For IPIs and serial interrupts

Specific Vectors

Vector Symbol Description
0x20 IRQ_MOVE_CLEANUP_VECTOR Clean up references to IRQs in past PCPUs after they have been moved
0x80 LEGACY_SYSCALL_VECTOR
0x82 HYPERCALL_VECTOR
0xf7 CMCI_APIC_VECTOR
0xf8 PMU_APIC_VECTOR
0xf9 LOCAL_TIMER_VECTOR
0xfa THERMAL_APIC_VECTOR
0xfb CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR
0xfc EVENT_CHECK_VECTOR
0xfd INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR
0xfe ERROR_APIC_VECTOR
0xff SPURIOUS_APIC_VECTOR