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/sparc/Kconfig | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/sparc/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig index 9212cd42a832..3e9d31401fb2 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ config SPARC select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB select RTC_CLASS select RTC_DRV_M48T59 + select HAVE_IRQ_WORK select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS select PERF_USE_VMALLOC select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS @@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ config SPARC64 select RTC_DRV_BQ4802 select RTC_DRV_SUN4V select RTC_DRV_STARFIRE + select HAVE_IRQ_WORK select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS select PERF_USE_VMALLOC -- cgit v1.2.3