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authorDeng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>2011-01-21 03:19:17 -0500
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2011-03-14 16:07:26 -0400
commit91f017372a48d2d128d08964bcfeafbd98b6d739 (patch)
treeca10991ee9566fe1801c41b0b4813b0d88b50e11 /arch/mips/Kconfig
parentefe8dc556cd0f22e04c453188ffbc408b492eb82 (diff)
MIPS, Perf-events: Work with irq_work
This is the MIPS part of the following commit by Peter Zijlstra: - e360adbe29241a0194e10e20595360dd7b98a2b3 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. For MIPSXX, we need to call irq_work_run() at the tail of the perf IRQ handler as described above. Reported-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> To: fweisbec@gmail.com To: will.deacon@arm.com Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: matt@console-pimps.org Cc: sshtylyov@mvista.com, Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2011/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index 972695e359e..bd7b64d252d 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ config MIPS
4 select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT 4 select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
5 select HAVE_IDE 5 select HAVE_IDE
6 select HAVE_OPROFILE 6 select HAVE_OPROFILE
7 select HAVE_IRQ_WORK
7 select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS 8 select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
8 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC 9 select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
9 select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB 10 select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB