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irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks

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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>
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Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-14 14:01:34 +08:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 8e5fc1a732
commit e360adbe29
39 changed files with 311 additions and 242 deletions
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arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
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@@ -224,9 +224,9 @@ static void __init apic_intr_init(void)
alloc_intr_gate(SPURIOUS_APIC_VECTOR, spurious_interrupt);
alloc_intr_gate(ERROR_APIC_VECTOR, error_interrupt);
/* Performance monitoring interrupts: */
# ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
alloc_intr_gate(LOCAL_PENDING_VECTOR, perf_pending_interrupt);
/* IRQ work interrupts: */
# ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_WORK
alloc_intr_gate(IRQ_WORK_VECTOR, irq_work_interrupt);
# endif
#endif