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>
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 2de5b1c..1ef0b43 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@
depends on !UML
default y
+config HAVE_IRQ_WORK
+ bool
+
+config IRQ_WORK
+ bool
+ depends on HAVE_IRQ_WORK
+
menu "General setup"
config EXPERIMENTAL
@@ -987,6 +994,7 @@
default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
select ANON_INODES
+ select IRQ_WORK
help
Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
by software and hardware.