[ale] interrupt numbers

[Calvin Harrigan]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> I am looking at a list of interrupts and their rate (sysstat data
> using kSar for graphing). I need to know how to map the interrupt
> number to a physical process.
>
> i.e. what is i015 being called by? as well as i169?
>
> Clearly the kernel source is my friend here but it's somewhat , um,
> large. any ideas on a short place to look? Are interrupts
> standardized?
>
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I don't think interrupts are mapped to user processes per se.  As far as 
I remember the OS handles all hardware interrupts in the kernel.  If a 
process needs to get data from a peripheral it goes through the 
kernel/driver.