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/timer.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/timer.c') diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index 97bf05baade7..68a9ae7679b7 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ #include #include #include -#include +#include #include #include @@ -1279,7 +1279,10 @@ void update_process_times(int user_tick) run_local_timers(); rcu_check_callbacks(cpu, user_tick); printk_tick(); - perf_event_do_pending(); +#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_WORK + if (in_irq()) + irq_work_run(); +#endif scheduler_tick(); run_posix_cpu_timers(p); } -- cgit v1.2.3