linux/arch/frv
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
..
boot FRV: Drop 'TOPDIR' from Makefiles 2008-01-28 23:14:37 +01:00
include/asm archs: replace unifdef-y with header-y 2010-08-14 22:26:51 +02:00
kernel frv: double syscall restarts, syscall restart in sigreturn() 2010-09-20 10:44:38 -07:00
lib irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks 2010-10-18 19:58:50 +02:00
mb93090-mb00 include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
mm frv: invoke oom-killer from page fault 2010-06-04 15:21:44 -07:00
defconfig defconfig reduction 2010-08-14 22:26:53 +02:00
Kconfig irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks 2010-10-18 19:58:50 +02:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile frv: clean up arch/frv/Makefile 2010-08-03 14:09:45 +02:00