simrupt: A device that simulates interrupts

simrupt is a simple Linux kernel module to explain the concept of deferred work and kernel concepts as following:

• circular buffer
• mutex lock
• irq
• softirq
• tasklet
• workqueue
• kernel thread

It can be also used as a template to implement an IRQ-based device driver.

License

simrupt is released under the MIT license. Use of this source code is governed by a MIT-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.