From e360adbe29241a0194e10e20595360dd7b98a2b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:01:34 +0800 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Kyle McMartin Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky [ various fixes ] Signed-off-by: Huang Ying LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/irq_work.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 include/linux/irq_work.h (limited to 'include/linux/irq_work.h') diff --git a/include/linux/irq_work.h b/include/linux/irq_work.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4fa09d4d0b71 --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/irq_work.h @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +#ifndef _LINUX_IRQ_WORK_H +#define _LINUX_IRQ_WORK_H + +struct irq_work { + struct irq_work *next; + void (*func)(struct irq_work *); +}; + +static inline +void init_irq_work(struct irq_work *entry, void (*func)(struct irq_work *)) +{ + entry->next = NULL; + entry->func = func; +} + +bool irq_work_queue(struct irq_work *entry); +void irq_work_run(void); +void irq_work_sync(struct irq_work *entry); + +#endif /* _LINUX_IRQ_WORK_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3