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2014-10-15Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu Pull percpu consistent-ops changes from Tejun Heo: "Way back, before the current percpu allocator was implemented, static and dynamic percpu memory areas were allocated and handled separately and had their own accessors. The distinction has been gone for many years now; however, the now duplicate two sets of accessors remained with the pointer based ones - this_cpu_*() - evolving various other operations over time. During the process, we also accumulated other inconsistent operations. This pull request contains Christoph's patches to clean up the duplicate accessor situation. __get_cpu_var() uses are replaced with with this_cpu_ptr() and __this_cpu_ptr() with raw_cpu_ptr(). Unfortunately, the former sometimes is tricky thanks to C being a bit messy with the distinction between lvalues and pointers, which led to a rather ugly solution for cpumask_var_t involving the introduction of this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr(). This converts most of the uses but not all. Christoph will follow up with the remaining conversions in this merge window and hopefully remove the obsolete accessors" * 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (38 commits) irqchip: Properly fetch the per cpu offset percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix ia64: sn_nodepda cannot be assigned to after this_cpu conversion. Use __this_cpu_write. percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses" percpu: Remove __this_cpu_ptr clocksource: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr sparc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses avr32: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_write blackfin: Replace __get_cpu_var uses tile: Use this_cpu_ptr() for hardware counters tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses s390: cio driver &__get_cpu_var replacements s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses MIPS: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in FPU emulator. arm: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr ...
2014-09-13irq_work: Force raised irq work to run on irq work interruptFrederic Weisbecker
The nohz full kick, which restarts the tick when any resource depend on it, can't be executed anywhere given the operation it does on timers. If it is called from the scheduler or timers code, chances are that we run into a deadlock. This is why we run the nohz full kick from an irq work. That way we make sure that the kick runs on a virgin context. However if that's the case when irq work runs in its own dedicated self-ipi, things are different for the big bunch of archs that don't support the self triggered way. In order to support them, irq works are also handled by the timer interrupt as fallback. Now when irq works run on the timer interrupt, the context isn't blank. More precisely, they can run in the context of the hrtimer that runs the tick. But the nohz kick cancels and restarts this hrtimer and cancelling an hrtimer from itself isn't allowed. This is why we run in an endless loop: Kernel panic - not syncing: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 2 CPU: 2 PID: 7538 Comm: kworker/u8:8 Not tainted 3.16.0+ #34 Workqueue: btrfs-endio-write normal_work_helper [btrfs] ffff880244c06c88 000000001b486fe1 ffff880244c06bf0 ffffffff8a7f1e37 ffffffff8ac52a18 ffff880244c06c78 ffffffff8a7ef928 0000000000000010 ffff880244c06c88 ffff880244c06c20 000000001b486fe1 0000000000000000 Call Trace: <NMI[<ffffffff8a7f1e37>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a [<ffffffff8a7ef928>] panic+0xd4/0x207 [<ffffffff8a1450e8>] watchdog_overflow_callback+0x118/0x120 [<ffffffff8a186b0e>] __perf_event_overflow+0xae/0x350 [<ffffffff8a184f80>] ? perf_event_task_disable+0xa0/0xa0 [<ffffffff8a01a4cf>] ? x86_perf_event_set_period+0xbf/0x150 [<ffffffff8a187934>] perf_event_overflow+0x14/0x20 [<ffffffff8a020386>] intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x206/0x410 [<ffffffff8a01937b>] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x2b/0x50 [<ffffffff8a007b72>] nmi_handle+0xd2/0x390 [<ffffffff8a007aa5>] ? nmi_handle+0x5/0x390 [<ffffffff8a0cb7f8>] ? match_held_lock+0x8/0x1b0 [<ffffffff8a008062>] default_do_nmi+0x72/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8a008268>] do_nmi+0xb8/0x100 [<ffffffff8a7ff66a>] end_repeat_nmi+0x1e/0x2e [<ffffffff8a0cb7f8>] ? match_held_lock+0x8/0x1b0 [<ffffffff8a0cb7f8>] ? match_held_lock+0x8/0x1b0 [<ffffffff8a0cb7f8>] ? match_held_lock+0x8/0x1b0 <<EOE><IRQ[<ffffffff8a0ccd2f>] lock_acquired+0xaf/0x450 [<ffffffff8a0f74c5>] ? lock_hrtimer_base.isra.20+0x25/0x50 [<ffffffff8a7fc678>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x78/0x90 [<ffffffff8a0f74c5>] ? lock_hrtimer_base.isra.20+0x25/0x50 [<ffffffff8a0f74c5>] lock_hrtimer_base.isra.20+0x25/0x50 [<ffffffff8a0f7723>] hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x33/0x1e0 [<ffffffff8a0f78ea>] hrtimer_cancel+0x1a/0x30 [<ffffffff8a109237>] tick_nohz_restart+0x17/0x90 [<ffffffff8a10a213>] __tick_nohz_full_check+0xc3/0x100 [<ffffffff8a10a25e>] nohz_full_kick_work_func+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffff8a17c884>] irq_work_run_list+0x44/0x70 [<ffffffff8a17c8da>] irq_work_run+0x2a/0x50 [<ffffffff8a0f700b>] update_process_times+0x5b/0x70 [<ffffffff8a109005>] tick_sched_handle.isra.21+0x25/0x60 [<ffffffff8a109b81>] tick_sched_timer+0x41/0x60 [<ffffffff8a0f7aa2>] __run_hrtimer+0x72/0x470 [<ffffffff8a109b40>] ? tick_sched_do_timer+0xb0/0xb0 [<ffffffff8a0f8707>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x117/0x270 [<ffffffff8a034357>] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x37/0x60 [<ffffffff8a80010f>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x3f/0x50 [<ffffffff8a7fe52f>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x80 To fix this we force non-lazy irq works to run on irq work self-IPIs when available. That ability of the arch to trigger irq work self IPIs is available with arch_irq_work_has_interrupt(). Reported-by: Catalin Iacob <iacobcatalin@gmail.com> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2014-08-26time: Replace __get_cpu_var usesChristoph Lameter
Convert uses of __get_cpu_var for creating a address from a percpu offset to this_cpu_ptr. The two cases where get_cpu_var is used to actually access a percpu variable are changed to use this_cpu_read/raw_cpu_read. Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-07-05irq_work: Remove BUG_ON in irq_work_run()Peter Zijlstra
Because of a collision with 8d056c48e486 ("CPU hotplug, smp: flush any pending IPI callbacks before CPU offline"), which ends up calling hotplug_cfd()->flush_smp_call_function_queue()->irq_work_run(), which is not from IRQ context. And since that already calls irq_work_run() from the hotplug path, remove our entire hotplug handling. Reported-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-busatzs2gvz4v62258agipuf@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-06-16irq_work: Implement remote queueingFrederic Weisbecker
irq work currently only supports local callbacks. However its code is mostly ready to run remote callbacks and we have some potential user. The full nohz subsystem currently open codes its own remote irq work on top of the scheduler ipi when it wants a CPU to reevaluate its next tick. However this ad hoc solution bloats the scheduler IPI. Lets just extend the irq work subsystem to support remote queuing on top of the generic SMP IPI to handle this kind of user. This shouldn't add noticeable overhead. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2014-06-16irq_work: Split raised and lazy listsFrederic Weisbecker
An irq work can be handled from two places: from the tick if the work carries the "lazy" flag and the tick is periodic, or from a self IPI. We merge all these works in a single list and we use some per cpu latch to avoid raising a self-IPI when one is already pending. Now we could do away with this ugly latch if only the list was only made of non-lazy works. Just enqueueing a work on the empty list would be enough to know if we need to raise an IPI or not. Also we are going to implement remote irq work queuing. Then the per CPU latch will need to become atomic in the global scope. That's too bad because, here as well, just enqueueing a work on an empty list of non-lazy works would be enough to know if we need to raise an IPI or not. So lets take a way out of this: split the works in two distinct lists, one for the works that can be handled by the next tick and another one for those handled by the IPI. Just checking if the latter is empty when we queue a new work is enough to know if we need to raise an IPI. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2014-02-21perf/x86: Warn to early_printk() in case irq_work is too slowPeter Zijlstra
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:45:16AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > The reason I coded this up was that NMIs were firing off so fast that > nothing else was getting a chance to run. With this patch, at least the > printk() would come out and I'd have some idea what was going on. It will start spewing to early_printk() (which is a lot nicer to use from NMI context too) when it fails to queue the IRQ-work because its already enqueued. It does have the false-positive for when two CPUs trigger the warn concurrently, but that should be rare and some extra clutter on the early printk shouldn't be a problem. Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: mingo@kernel.org Fixes: 6a02ad66b2c4 ("perf/x86: Push the duration-logging printk() to IRQ context") Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140211150116.GO27965@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-02-05Merge branch 'nohz/printk-v8' into irq/coreFrederic Weisbecker
Conflicts: kernel/irq_work.c Add support for printk in full dynticks CPU. * Don't stop tick with irq works pending. This fix is generally useful and concerns archs that can't raise self IPIs. * Flush irq works before CPU offlining. * Introduce "lazy" irq works that can wait for the next tick to be executed, unless it's stopped. * Implement klogd wake up using irq work. This removes the ad-hoc printk_tick()/printk_needs_cpu() hooks and make it working even in dynticks mode. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-02-04irq_work: Remove return value from the irq_work_queue() functionanish kumar
As no one is using the return value of irq_work_queue(), so it is better to just make it void. Signed-off-by: anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> [ Fix stale comments, remove now unnecessary __irq_work_queue() intermediate function ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359925703-24304-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-11-18irq_work: Make self-IPIs optableFrederic Weisbecker
On irq work initialization, let the user choose to define it as "lazy" or not. "Lazy" means that we don't want to send an IPI (provided the arch can anyway) when we enqueue this work but we rather prefer to wait for the next timer tick to execute our work if possible. This is going to be a benefit for non-urgent enqueuers (like printk in the future) that may prefer not to raise an IPI storm in case of frequent enqueuing on short periods of time. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-11-17irq_work: Warn if there's still work on cpu_downSteven Rostedt
If we are in nohz and there's still irq_work to be done when the idle task is about to go offline, give a nasty warning. Everything should have been flushed from the CPU_DYING notifier already. Further attempts to enqueue an irq_work are buggy because irqs are disabled by __cpu_disable(). The best we can do is to report the issue to the user. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2012-11-17irq_work: Flush work on CPU_DYINGSteven Rostedt
In order not to offline a CPU with pending irq works, flush the queue from CPU_DYING. The notifier is called by stop_machine on the CPU that is going down. The code will not be called from irq context (so things like get_irq_regs() wont work) but I'm not sure what the requirements are for irq_work in that regard (Peter?). But irqs are disabled and the CPU is about to go offline. Might as well flush the work. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2012-11-17irq_work: Don't stop the tick with pending worksFrederic Weisbecker
Don't stop the tick if we have pending irq works on the queue, otherwise if the arch can't raise self-IPIs, we may not find an opportunity to execute the pending works for a while. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-11-14irq_work: Fix racy check on work pending flagFrederic Weisbecker
Work claiming wants to be SMP-safe. And by the time we try to claim a work, if it is already executing concurrently on another CPU, we want to succeed the claiming and queue the work again because the other CPU may have missed the data we wanted to handle in our work if it's about to complete there. This scenario is summarized below: CPU 1 CPU 2 ----- ----- (flags = 0) cmpxchg(flags, 0, IRQ_WORK_FLAGS) (flags = 3) [...] xchg(flags, IRQ_WORK_BUSY) (flags = 2) func() if (flags & IRQ_WORK_PENDING) (not true) cmpxchg(flags, flags, IRQ_WORK_FLAGS) (flags = 3) [...] cmpxchg(flags, IRQ_WORK_BUSY, 0); (fail, pending on CPU 2) This state machine is synchronized using [cmp]xchg() on the flags. As such, the early IRQ_WORK_PENDING check in CPU 2 above is racy. By the time we check it, we may be dealing with a stale value because we aren't using an atomic accessor. As a result, CPU 2 may "see" that the work is still pending on another CPU while it may be actually completing the work function exection already, leaving our data unprocessed. To fix this, we start by speculating about the value we wish to be in the work->flags but we only make any conclusion after the value returned by the cmpxchg() call that either claims the work or let the current owner handle the pending work for us. Changelog-heavily-inspired-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Anish Kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
2012-11-14irq_work: Fix racy IRQ_WORK_BUSY flag settingFrederic Weisbecker
The IRQ_WORK_BUSY flag is set right before we execute the work. Once this flag value is set, the work enters a claimable state again. So if we have specific data to compute in our work, we ensure it's either handled by another CPU or locally by enqueuing the work again. This state machine is guanranteed by atomic operations on the flags. So when we set IRQ_WORK_BUSY without using an xchg-like operation, we break this guarantee as in the following summarized scenario: CPU 1 CPU 2 ----- ----- (flags = 0) old_flags = flags; (flags = 0) cmpxchg(flags, old_flags, old_flags | IRQ_WORK_FLAGS) (flags = 3) [...] flags = IRQ_WORK_BUSY (flags = 2) func() (sees flags = 3) cmpxchg(flags, old_flags, old_flags | IRQ_WORK_FLAGS) (give up) cmpxchg(flags, 2, 0); (flags = 0) CPU 1 claims a work and executes it, so it sets IRQ_WORK_BUSY and the work is again in a claimable state. Now CPU 2 has new data to process and try to claim that work but it may see a stale value of the flags and think the work is still pending somewhere that will handle our data. This is because CPU 1 doesn't set IRQ_WORK_BUSY atomically. As a result, the data expected to be handle by CPU 2 won't get handled. To fix this, use xchg() to set IRQ_WORK_BUSY, this way we ensure the CPU 2 will see the correct value with cmpxchg() using the expected ordering. Changelog-heavily-inspired-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Anish Kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
2012-04-13irq_work: fix compile failure on tile from missing includeChris Metcalf
Building with IRQ_WORK configured results in kernel/irq_work.c: In function ‘irq_work_run’: kernel/irq_work.c:110: error: implicit declaration of function ‘irqs_disabled’ The appropriate header just needs to be included. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-04-02irq_work: fix compile failure on MIPS from system.h splitPaul Gortmaker
Builds of the MIPS platform ip32_defconfig fails as of commit 0195c00244dc ("Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h ...") because MIPS xchg() macro uses BUILD_BUG_ON and it was moved in commit b81947c646bf ("Disintegrate asm/system.h for MIPS"). The root cause is that the system.h split wasn't tested on a baseline with commit 6c03438edeb5 ("kernel.h: doesn't explicitly use bug.h, so don't include it.") Since this file uses BUG code in several other places besides the xchg call, simply make the inclusion explicit. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31kernel: fix two implicit header assumptions in irq_work.cPaul Gortmaker
Up until now, this file was getting percpu.h because nearly every file was implicitly getting module.h (and all its sub-includes). But we want to clean that up, so call out percpu.h explicitly. Otherwise we'll get things like this on an ARM build: kernel/irq_work.c:48: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'irq_work_list' kernel/irq_work.c:48: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'DEFINE_PER_CPU' The same thing was happening for builds on ARM for asm/processor.h kernel/irq_work.c: In function 'irq_work_sync': kernel/irq_work.c:166: error: implicit declaration of function 'cpu_relax' Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.hPaul Gortmaker
The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else. Revector them onto the isolated export header for faster compile times. Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of: -#include <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/export.h> This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-04llist: Add llist_next()Peter Zijlstra
So we don't have to expose the struct list_node member. Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315836348.26517.41.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-04irq_work: Use llist in the struct irq_work logicHuang Ying
Use llist in irq_work instead of the lock-less linked list implementation in irq_work to avoid the code duplication. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315461646-1379-6-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-18irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomicsChristoph Lameter
The irq work queue is a per cpu object and it is sufficient for synchronization if per cpu atomics are used. Doing so simplifies the code and reduces the overhead of the code. Before: christoph@linux-2.6$ size kernel/irq_work.o text data bss dec hex filename 451 8 1 460 1cc kernel/irq_work.o After: christoph@linux-2.6$ size kernel/irq_work.o text data bss dec hex filename 438 8 1 447 1bf kernel/irq_work.o Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
2010-11-18irq_work: Drop cmpxchg() resultSergio Aguirre
The compiler warned us about: kernel/irq_work.c: In function 'irq_work_run': kernel/irq_work.c:148: warning: value computed is not used Dropping the cmpxchg() result is indeed weird, but correct - so annotate away the warning. Signed-off-by: Sergio Aguirre <saaguirre@ti.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1289930567-17828-1-git-send-email-saaguirre@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacksPeter Zijlstra
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>