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>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/pcr.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/pcr.c
index c4a6a50b484..b87873c0e8e 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 @@ void __irq_entry deferred_pcr_work_irq(int irq, struct pt_regs *regs)
 
 	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);
 }