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, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index d52b473c99a1..4d9bf5f8531f 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_rtmutex-debug.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_cgroup-debug.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_sched_clock.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_perf_event.o = -pg
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_irq_work.o = -pg
 endif
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_FREEZER) += freezer.o
@@ -100,6 +101,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_TRACING) += trace/
 obj-$(CONFIG_X86_DS) += trace/
 obj-$(CONFIG_RING_BUFFER) += trace/
 obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += sched_cpupri.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_IRQ_WORK) += irq_work.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) += perf_event.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT) += hw_breakpoint.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER) += user-return-notifier.o