Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq_work

Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-24T11:57:37Z

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 13:55 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > but we don't have anything else that does that.
>
> Actually we do, audit in syscalls and scheduling in interrupts and signals
> all work this way. Probably more at some point adding more code to this
> path was very popular.

That's the return to user path, nothing to do with softirqs. Add a TIF
flag and call your function there.