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, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_work.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_work.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ca8f703a1e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_work.c
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/*
+ * x86 specific code for irq_work
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>
+ */
+
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/irq_work.h>
+#include <linux/hardirq.h>
+#include <asm/apic.h>
+
+void smp_irq_work_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	irq_enter();
+	ack_APIC_irq();
+	inc_irq_stat(apic_irq_work_irqs);
+	irq_work_run();
+	irq_exit();
+}
+
+void arch_irq_work_raise(void)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
+	if (!cpu_has_apic)
+		return;
+
+	apic->send_IPI_self(IRQ_WORK_VECTOR);
+	apic_wait_icr_idle();
+#endif
+}