Re: [RFC][PATCH] irq_work

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jun 24 2010 - 07:57:40 EST


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.
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