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Commit 2b84def9 authored by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's avatar Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Committed by Peter Zijlstra
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perf: Split __perf_pending_irq() out of perf_pending_irq()



perf_pending_irq() invokes perf_event_wakeup() and __perf_pending_irq().
The former is in charge of waking any tasks which waits to be woken up
while the latter disables perf-events.

The irq_work perf_pending_irq(), while this an irq_work, the callback
is invoked in thread context on PREEMPT_RT. This is needed because all
the waking functions (wake_up_all(), kill_fasync()) acquire sleep locks
which must not be used with disabled interrupts.
Disabling events, as done by __perf_pending_irq(), expects a hardirq
context and disabled interrupts. This requirement is not fulfilled on
PREEMPT_RT.

Split functionality based on perf_event::pending_disable into irq_work
named `pending_disable_irq' and invoke it in hardirq context on
PREEMPT_RT. Rename the split out callback to perf_pending_disable().

Reported-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: default avatarMarco Elver <elver@google.com>
Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240704170424.1466941-8-bigeasy@linutronix.de
parent 16b9569d
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