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, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 97bf05baade7..68a9ae7679b7 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/tick.h>
 #include <linux/kallsyms.h>
-#include <linux/perf_event.h>
+#include <linux/irq_work.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 
@@ -1279,7 +1279,10 @@ void update_process_times(int user_tick)
 	run_local_timers();
 	rcu_check_callbacks(cpu, user_tick);
 	printk_tick();
-	perf_event_do_pending();
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_WORK
+	if (in_irq())
+		irq_work_run();
+#endif
 	scheduler_tick();
 	run_posix_cpu_timers(p);
 }