From e360adbe29241a0194e10e20595360dd7b98a2b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:01:34 +0800 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Kyle McMartin Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky [ various fixes ] Signed-off-by: Huang Ying LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h index aeab29aee61..55e4de613f0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ typedef struct { #endif unsigned int x86_platform_ipis; /* arch dependent */ unsigned int apic_perf_irqs; - unsigned int apic_pending_irqs; + unsigned int apic_irq_work_irqs; #ifdef CONFIG_SMP unsigned int irq_resched_count; unsigned int irq_call_count; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2