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    powerpc: Re-enable dynticks · fea559f3
    Paul Clarke authored
    Implement arch_irq_work_has_interrupt() for powerpc
    
    Commit 9b01f5bf introduced a dependency on "IRQ work self-IPIs" for
    full dynamic ticks to be enabled, by expecting architectures to
    implement a suitable arch_irq_work_has_interrupt() routine.
    
    Several arches have implemented this routine, including x86 (3010279f)
    and arm (09f6edd4), but powerpc was omitted.
    
    This patch implements this routine for powerpc.
    
    The symptom, at boot (on powerpc systems) with "nohz_full=<CPU list>"
    is displayed:
    
         NO_HZ: Can't run full dynticks because arch doesn't support irq work self-IPIs
    
    after this patch:
    
         NO_HZ: Full dynticks CPUs: <CPU list>.
    
    Tested against 3.19.
    
    powerpc implements "IRQ work self-IPIs" by setting the decrementer to 1 in
    arch_irq_work_raise(), which causes a decrementer exception on the next
    timebase tick. We then handle the work in __timer_interrupt().
    
    CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul A. Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    [mpe: Flesh out change log, fix ws & include guards, remove include of processor.h]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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