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The document discusses clocks and timers in operating systems. It covers clock hardware including crystal oscillators, counters, and holding registers. It also discusses clock software and the typical duties of a clock driver, including maintaining time of day, preventing CPU monopolization, accounting for CPU usage, handling alarms, watchdog timers, and profiling. The document introduces soft timers as a way to schedule software events without interrupts by checking timers during regular kernel entries.

Author

Hoàng Võ

Language

EN