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>

3 files changed, 16 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
index b9647bb66d13..d04ccd73af45 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ config ALPHA
 	select HAVE_IDE
 	select HAVE_OPROFILE
 	select HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
+	select HAVE_IRQ_WORK
 	select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
 	select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
 	help
diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/perf_event.h
index 4157cd3c44a9..fe792ca818f6 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/perf_event.h
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 #ifndef __ASM_ALPHA_PERF_EVENT_H
 #define __ASM_ALPHA_PERF_EVENT_H
 
-/* Alpha only supports software events through this interface. */
-extern void set_perf_event_pending(void);
-
-#define PERF_EVENT_INDEX_OFFSET 0
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
 extern void init_hw_perf_events(void);
 #else
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c
index 396af1799ea4..0f1d8493cfca 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/bcd.h>
 #include <linux/profile.h>
-#include <linux/perf_event.h>
+#include <linux/irq_work.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
@@ -83,25 +83,25 @@ static struct {
 
 unsigned long est_cycle_freq;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_WORK
 
-DEFINE_PER_CPU(u8, perf_event_pending);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(u8, irq_work_pending);
 
-#define set_perf_event_pending_flag()  __get_cpu_var(perf_event_pending) = 1
-#define test_perf_event_pending()      __get_cpu_var(perf_event_pending)
-#define clear_perf_event_pending()     __get_cpu_var(perf_event_pending) = 0
+#define set_irq_work_pending_flag()  __get_cpu_var(irq_work_pending) = 1
+#define test_irq_work_pending()      __get_cpu_var(irq_work_pending)
+#define clear_irq_work_pending()     __get_cpu_var(irq_work_pending) = 0
 
-void set_perf_event_pending(void)
+void set_irq_work_pending(void)
 {
-	set_perf_event_pending_flag();
+	set_irq_work_pending_flag();
 }
 
-#else  /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */
+#else  /* CONFIG_IRQ_WORK */
 
-#define test_perf_event_pending()      0
-#define clear_perf_event_pending()
+#define test_irq_work_pending()      0
+#define clear_irq_work_pending()
 
-#endif /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */
+#endif /* CONFIG_IRQ_WORK */
 
 
 static inline __u32 rpcc(void)
@@ -191,9 +191,9 @@ irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dev)
 
 	write_sequnlock(&xtime_lock);
 
-	if (test_perf_event_pending()) {
-		clear_perf_event_pending();
-		perf_event_do_pending();
+	if (test_irq_work_pending()) {
+		clear_irq_work_pending();
+		irq_work_run();
 	}
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_SMP