irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks
Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.
Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
benefit.
The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.
Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
processing the work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
[ various fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/pcr.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/pcr.c
index c4a6a50..b87873c 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/pcr.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/pcr.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/irq.h>
-#include <linux/perf_event.h>
+#include <linux/irq_work.h>
#include <linux/ftrace.h>
#include <asm/pil.h>
@@ -43,14 +43,14 @@
old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
irq_enter();
-#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
- perf_event_do_pending();
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_WORK
+ irq_work_run();
#endif
irq_exit();
set_irq_regs(old_regs);
}
-void set_perf_event_pending(void)
+void arch_irq_work_raise(void)
{
set_softint(1 << PIL_DEFERRED_PCR_WORK);
}