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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions

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