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From: Yifan Zhu <yzhu2@unity.ncsu.edu>
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Hi,
I'm looking at the 2.4 kernel. My understanding of the code is that the
TIMER_BH handler is executed when the hardware timer interrupt returns (
after do_IRQ(), but before returning to the interrupted task ). Is that
right?

Thanks for clarification!

Yifan