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, 0 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index e2513f26ba8..fe73c1844a9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -1196,25 +1196,6 @@ static int x86_pmu_handle_irq(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	return handled;
 }
 
-void smp_perf_pending_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs)
-{
-	irq_enter();
-	ack_APIC_irq();
-	inc_irq_stat(apic_pending_irqs);
-	perf_event_do_pending();
-	irq_exit();
-}
-
-void set_perf_event_pending(void)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
-	if (!x86_pmu.apic || !x86_pmu_initialized())
-		return;
-
-	apic->send_IPI_self(LOCAL_PENDING_VECTOR);
-#endif
-}
-
 void perf_events_lapic_init(void)
 {
 	if (!x86_pmu.apic || !x86_pmu_initialized())