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 --- kernel/Makefile | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/Makefile') diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile index d52b473c99a1..4d9bf5f8531f 100644 --- a/kernel/Makefile +++ b/kernel/Makefile @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_rtmutex-debug.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_cgroup-debug.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched_clock.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_perf_event.o = -pg +CFLAGS_REMOVE_irq_work.o = -pg endif obj-$(CONFIG_FREEZER) += freezer.o @@ -100,6 +101,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_TRACING) += trace/ obj-$(CONFIG_X86_DS) += trace/ obj-$(CONFIG_RING_BUFFER) += trace/ obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += sched_cpupri.o +obj-$(CONFIG_IRQ_WORK) += irq_work.o obj-$(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) += perf_event.o obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT) += hw_breakpoint.o obj-$(CONFIG_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER) += user-return-notifier.o -- cgit v1.2.3