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, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/perf_event.h
index 4157cd3c44a9..fe792ca818f6 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/perf_event.h
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 #ifndef __ASM_ALPHA_PERF_EVENT_H
 #define __ASM_ALPHA_PERF_EVENT_H
 
-/* Alpha only supports software events through this interface. */
-extern void set_perf_event_pending(void);
-
-#define PERF_EVENT_INDEX_OFFSET 0
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
 extern void init_hw_perf_events(void);
 #else