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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2015-04-14 21:08:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2015-04-22 17:06:50 +0200 |
| commit | c6eb3f70d4482806dc2d3e1e3c7736f497b1d418 (patch) | |
| tree | 5585d1389441c34889b25cc8fb190ae3de7c0c35 /include/linux/interrupt.h | |
| parent | 895bdfa793f6e912d1a58fc445b3dd4d686f7bd3 (diff) | |
hrtimer: Get rid of hrtimer softirq
hrtimer softirq is a leftover from the initial implementation and
serves only the purpose to handle the enqueueing of already expired
timers in the high resolution timer mode. We discussed whether we
change the return value and force all start sites to handle that the
timer is already expired, but that would be a Herculean task and I'm
not sure whether its a good idea to enforce that handling on
everyone.
A simpler solution is to enforce a timer interrupt instead of raising
and scheduling a softirq. Just use the existing infrastructure to do
so and remove all the softirq leftovers.
The HRTIMER softirq enum is now unused, but kept around because trace
parsers rely on the existing numbering.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203501.840834708@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/interrupt.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/interrupt.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h index 950ae4501826..6bf15a66bce7 100644 --- a/include/linux/interrupt.h +++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h @@ -413,7 +413,8 @@ enum BLOCK_IOPOLL_SOFTIRQ, TASKLET_SOFTIRQ, SCHED_SOFTIRQ, - HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ, + HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ, /* Unused, but kept as tools rely on the + numbering. Sigh! */ RCU_SOFTIRQ, /* Preferable RCU should always be the last softirq */ NR_SOFTIRQS |