hrtimer: Implement support for softirq based hrtimers
hrtimer callbacks are always invoked in hard interrupt context. Several users in tree require soft interrupt context for their callbacks and achieve this by combining a hrtimer with a tasklet. The hrtimer schedules the tasklet in hard interrupt context and the tasklet callback gets invoked in softirq context later. That's suboptimal and aside of that the real-time patch moves most of the hrtimers into softirq context. So adding native support for hrtimers expiring in softirq context is a valuable extension for both mainline and the RT patch set. Each valid hrtimer clock id has two associated hrtimer clock bases: one for timers expiring in hardirq context and one for timers expiring in softirq context. Implement the functionality to associate a hrtimer with the hard or softirq related clock bases and update the relevant functions to take them into account when the next expiry time needs to be evaluated. Add a check into the hard interrupt context handler functions to check whether the first expiring softirq based timer has expired. If it's expired the softirq is raised and the accounting of softirq based timers to evaluate the next expiry time for programming the timer hardware is skipped until the softirq processing has finished. At the end of the softirq processing the regular processing is resumed. Suggested-by:Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Suggested-by:
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