linux/include
Peter Zijlstra a8b0ca17b8 perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface
The nmi parameter indicated if we could do wakeups from the current
context, if not, we would set some state and self-IPI and let the
resulting interrupt do the wakeup.

For the various event classes:

  - hardware: nmi=0; PMI is in fact an NMI or we run irq_work_run from
    the PMI-tail (ARM etc.)
  - tracepoint: nmi=0; since tracepoint could be from NMI context.
  - software: nmi=[0,1]; some, like the schedule thing cannot
    perform wakeups, and hence need 0.

As one can see, there is very little nmi=1 usage, and the down-side of
not using it is that on some platforms some software events can have a
jiffy delay in wakeup (when arch_irq_work_raise isn't implemented).

The up-side however is that we can remove the nmi parameter and save a
bunch of conditionals in fast paths.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-agjev8eu666tvknpb3iaj0fg@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
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acpi Merge branches 'acpica', 'aml-custom', 'bugzilla-16548', 'bugzilla-20242', 'd3-cold', 'ec-asus' and 'thermal-fix' into release 2011-05-29 04:38:48 -04:00
asm-generic Merge branches 'gpio/merge' and 'spi/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-06-17 10:36:32 -07:00
crypto
drm drm/radeon: workaround a hw bug on some radeon chipsets with all-0 EDIDs. 2011-06-16 16:30:54 +10:00
keys libceph: Create a new key type "ceph". 2011-03-29 12:11:24 -07:00
linux perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface 2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
math-emu
media [media] v4l: Fix media_entity_to_video_device macro argument name 2011-06-01 09:42:03 -03:00
mtd UBI: fix minor stylistic issues 2011-04-14 11:34:41 +03:00
net Fix some kernel-doc warnings 2011-06-27 16:06:19 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: Make declaration and uses of struct pcmcia_device_id const 2011-05-06 07:46:15 +02:00
rdma Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband 2011-05-26 12:13:57 -07:00
rxrpc Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
scsi [SCSI] libsas: Add option for SATA soft reset 2011-05-26 22:49:33 -05:00
sound ASoC: Remove unused and about to be broken SND_SOC_CUSTOM I/O bus 2011-06-13 19:17:55 +01:00
target [SCSI] target: Convert REPORT_LUNs to use int_to_scsilun 2011-05-24 13:02:42 -04:00
trace Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 2011-06-21 10:22:35 -07:00
video Merge branches 'common/fbdev' and 'common/fbdev-meram' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 2011-05-24 15:49:57 +09:00
xen Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djm/tmem 2011-05-26 10:50:56 -07:00
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