linux/arch/parisc
Peter Zijlstra e360adbe29 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>
2010-10-18 19:58:50 +02:00
..
configs defconfig reduction 2010-08-14 22:26:53 +02:00
hpux Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
include/asm irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks 2010-10-18 19:58:50 +02:00
kernel modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race 2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
lib parisc: add strict copy size checks (v2) 2010-03-06 22:54:09 +00:00
math-emu parisc: clear floating point exception flag on SIGFPE signal 2010-05-30 05:39:58 -04:00
mm parisc: fix wrong page aligned size calculation in ioremapping code 2010-08-12 08:43:29 -07:00
oprofile oprofile: more whitespace fixes 2008-10-15 20:55:51 +02:00
defpalo.conf Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
install.sh kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized installkernel script 2009-09-20 12:18:14 +02:00
Kconfig irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks 2010-10-18 19:58:50 +02:00
Kconfig.debug parisc: add strict copy size checks (v2) 2010-03-06 22:54:09 +00:00
Makefile kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized installkernel script 2009-09-20 12:18:14 +02:00
nm Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00