irq_work: Drop cmpxchg() result

2010-11-18T12:18:47Z

The compiler warned us about: kernel/irq_work.c: In function 'irq_work_run': kernel/irq_work.c:148: warning: value computed is not used Dropping the cmpxchg() result is indeed weird, but correct - so annotate away the warning. Signed-off-by: Sergio Aguirre Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Kyle McMartin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <1289930567-17828-1-git-send-email-saaguirre@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks

2010-10-18T17:58:50Z

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

linux/kernel/irq_work.c, branch v2.6.37

irq_work: Drop cmpxchg() result

irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks