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, 9 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index a9227e985207..2ebfc9ae4755 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -486,6 +486,7 @@ struct perf_guest_info_callbacks {
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <linux/ftrace.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
+#include <linux/irq_work.h>
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 #include <asm/local.h>
 
@@ -672,11 +673,6 @@ struct perf_buffer {
 	void				*data_pages[0];
 };
 
-struct perf_pending_entry {
-	struct perf_pending_entry *next;
-	void (*func)(struct perf_pending_entry *);
-};
-
 struct perf_sample_data;
 
 typedef void (*perf_overflow_handler_t)(struct perf_event *, int,
@@ -784,7 +780,7 @@ struct perf_event {
 	int				pending_wakeup;
 	int				pending_kill;
 	int				pending_disable;
-	struct perf_pending_entry	pending;
+	struct irq_work			pending;
 
 	atomic_t			event_limit;
 
@@ -898,8 +894,6 @@ extern int perf_event_init_task(struct task_struct *child);
 extern void perf_event_exit_task(struct task_struct *child);
 extern void perf_event_free_task(struct task_struct *task);
 extern void perf_event_delayed_put(struct task_struct *task);
-extern void set_perf_event_pending(void);
-extern void perf_event_do_pending(void);
 extern void perf_event_print_debug(void);
 extern void perf_pmu_disable(struct pmu *pmu);
 extern void perf_pmu_enable(struct pmu *pmu);
@@ -1078,7 +1072,6 @@ static inline int perf_event_init_task(struct task_struct *child)	{ return 0; }
 static inline void perf_event_exit_task(struct task_struct *child)	{ }
 static inline void perf_event_free_task(struct task_struct *task)	{ }
 static inline void perf_event_delayed_put(struct task_struct *task)	{ }
-static inline void perf_event_do_pending(void)				{ }
 static inline void perf_event_print_debug(void)				{ }
 static inline int perf_event_task_disable(void)				{ return -EINVAL; }
 static inline int perf_event_task_enable(void)				{ return -EINVAL; }