Re: [PATCH 2/2] vmd: use untracked irq handler

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Fri Jun 17 2016 - 19:01:00 EST


On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 04:00:21PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> There is no way to know which device in a VMD tiggered an interrupt

s/tiggered/triggered/

> without invoking every registered driver's actions. This uses the
> untracked irq handler so that a less used device does not trigger
> spurious interrupt.
>
> We have been previously recommending users enable "noirqdebug", but do
> not want to force a system setting just to keep this domain functional.

I applaud that goal.

> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx>

Since this depends on the previous patch and I'm not qualified to review
that one, I'll ack this and somebody else can merge both or none:

Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> arch/x86/pci/vmd.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/vmd.c b/arch/x86/pci/vmd.c
> index 7792aba..613cac7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/pci/vmd.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/pci/vmd.c
> @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ static int vmd_msi_init(struct irq_domain *domain, struct msi_domain_info *info,
> vmdirq->virq = virq;
>
> irq_domain_set_info(domain, virq, vmdirq->irq->vmd_vector, info->chip,
> - vmdirq, handle_simple_irq, vmd, NULL);
> + vmdirq, handle_untracked_irq, vmd, NULL);
> return 0;
> }
>
> --
> 2.7.2
>