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      irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks · e360adbe
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      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: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Acked-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Acked-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      [ various fixes ]
      Signed-off-by: NHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e360adbe