Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Nicholas Piggin
authored
Using irq_work for processing OPAL event interrupts is not necessary. irq_work is typically used to schedule work from NMI context, a softirq may be more appropriate. However OPAL events are not particularly performance or latency critical, so they can all be invoked by kopald. This patch removes the irq_work queueing, and instead wakes up kopald when there is an event to be processed. kopald processes interrupts individually, enabling irqs and calling cond_resched between each one to minimise latencies. Event handlers themselves should still use threaded handlers, workqueues, etc. as necessary to avoid high interrupts-off latencies within any single interrupt. Signed-off-by:Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>