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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2010-10-14 14:01:34 +0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-10-18 19:58:50 +0200
commite360adbe29241a0194e10e20595360dd7b98a2b3 (patch)
treeef5fa5f50a895096bfb25bc11b25949603158238 /arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
parent8e5fc1a7320baf6076391607515dceb61319b36a (diff)
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>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
index 9d3f485e5dd..7490bf8d145 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ obj-y := process_$(BITS).o signal.o entry_$(BITS).o
obj-y += traps.o irq.o irq_$(BITS).o dumpstack_$(BITS).o
obj-y += time.o ioport.o ldt.o dumpstack.o
obj-y += setup.o x86_init.o i8259.o irqinit.o jump_label.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_IRQ_WORK) += irq_work.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_VISWS) += visws_quirks.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_32) += probe_roms_32.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_32) += sys_i386_32.o i386_ksyms_32.o