Modern Operating System --- Chap 5.5.2 Clock Software


All the clock hardware does is to generate interrupts at known intervals. Everything

else involving time must be done by the software, the clock driver. The exact duties

of the clock dirver vary among operating systems, but ususally include most of the

following:

1. Maintaining the time of day.

2. Preventing processes from running longer than they are allowed to.

3. Accounting for CPU usage.

4. Handling the alarm system call made by user processes.

5. Providing watchdog timers for parts of the system itself.

6. Doing profiling, monitoring, and statistics garthering.

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