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/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h | 12 ------------ 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/arm/include') diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h index b5799a3b7117..c4aa4e8c6af9 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h @@ -12,18 +12,6 @@ #ifndef __ARM_PERF_EVENT_H__ #define __ARM_PERF_EVENT_H__ -/* - * NOP: on *most* (read: all supported) ARM platforms, the performance - * counter interrupts are regular interrupts and not an NMI. This - * means that when we receive the interrupt we can call - * perf_event_do_pending() that handles all of the work with - * interrupts disabled. - */ -static inline void -set_perf_event_pending(void) -{ -} - /* ARM performance counters start from 1 (in the cp15 accesses) so use the * same indexes here for consistency. */ #define PERF_EVENT_INDEX_OFFSET 1 -- cgit v1.2.3