ARM: bL_switcher: move to dedicated threads rather than workqueues
authorNicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:36:17 +0000 (02:36 -0400)
committerNicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:54:20 +0000 (16:54 -0400)
commit9ab74b984780dc8c8b0a62011552abbfd99b3c86
treec9f9b8f0e6af547b9a025ee1668d652bc5e0abd4
parent729e17e246e9f5c4be105f42291a57d4bdd85f68
ARM: bL_switcher: move to dedicated threads rather than workqueues

The workqueues are problematic as they may be contended.
They can't be scheduled with top priority either.  Also the optimization
in bL_switch_request() to skip the workqueue entirely when the target CPU
and the calling CPU were the same didn't allow for bL_switch_request() to
be called from atomic context, as might be the case for some cpufreq
drivers.

Let's move to dedicated kthreads instead.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
arch/arm/common/bL_switcher.c
arch/arm/include/asm/bL_switcher.h