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Peter Zijlstra authored
Normally pending work is work that cannot be done from NMI context, such as wakeups and disabling the counter. The pending work is a single linked list using atomic ops so that it functions from NMI context. Normally this is called from IRQ context through use of an self-IPI (x86) or upon enabling hard interrupts (powerpc). Architectures that do not implement perf_counter_set_pending() nor call perf_counter_do_pending() upon leaving NMI context will get a polling fallback from the timer softirq. However, in -rt we cannot do the wakeup from IRQ context because its a wait_queue wakup, which can be O(n), so defer all wakeups to the softirq fallback by creating a second pending list that's only processed from there. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> LKML-Reference: <1251208265.7538.1157.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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