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, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 88c97bc7a6f5..7c0dfccd05bd 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ config ARM
         select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
         select HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
         select HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
+        select HAVE_IRQ_WORK
         select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
         select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
         select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API