Re: [Patch Part2 v4 20/31] PCI/MSI: Kill redundant calling for irq_set_msi_desc() for MSIx interrupts

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Yijing Wang <wangyijing@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2014/11/6 6:45, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 08:01:54PM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
>>> It's arch_setup_msi_irq()/arch_setup_msi_irqs()'s responsibility to call
>>> irq_set_msi_desc() to associate IRQ descriptors and MSI descriptors,
>>> so kill the redundant call of irq_set_msi_desc() for MSIx interrupts
>>> in PCI MSI core.
>>
>> "MSI-X" in English text, "msix" in code.
>>
>> The default arch_setup_msi_irq() in drivers/pci/msi.c doesn't call
>> irq_set_msi_desc().  Does it happen somewhere inside chip->setup_irq()?
>
> Yes.
>
> I also found this.
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg34256.html

Yes, and I asked the same question then :)

It's just impractical to review things like this that make assumptions
about lots of code scattered all over the place with no direct linkage
to the change.

Bjorn
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