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/kernel/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/Makefile') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile index 9d3f485..7490bf8 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 -- cgit v1.1