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, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/sh/include/asm/perf_event.h
index 3d0c9f36d15..14308bed7ea 100644
--- a/arch/sh/include/asm/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/sh/include/asm/perf_event.h
@@ -26,11 +26,4 @@ extern int register_sh_pmu(struct sh_pmu *);
 extern int reserve_pmc_hardware(void);
 extern void release_pmc_hardware(void);
 
-static inline void set_perf_event_pending(void)
-{
-	/* Nothing to see here, move along. */
-}
-
-#define PERF_EVENT_INDEX_OFFSET	0
-
 #endif /* __ASM_SH_PERF_EVENT_H */