Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] genirq/affinity: Add irq_update_affinity_desc()

From: John Garry
Date: Thu Nov 19 2020 - 04:32:18 EST


Hi Thomas,

+int irq_update_affinity_desc(unsigned int irq,
+ struct irq_affinity_desc *affinity)
Just a note on the return value, in the only current callsite -
platform_get_irqs_affinity() - we don't check the return value and
propagate the error. This is because we don't want to fail the interrupt
init just because of problems updating the affinity mask. So I could
print a message to inform the user of error (at the callsite).
Well, not sure about that. During init on a platform which does not have
the issues with reservation mode there failure cases are:

1) Interrupt does not exist. Definitely a full fail

2) Interrupt is already started up. Not a good idea on init() and
a clear fail.

3) Interrupt has already been switched to managed. Double init is not
really a good sign either.

I just tested that and case 3) would be a problem. I don't see us clearing the managed flag when free'ing the interrupt. So with CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE=y, we attempt this affinity update twice, and error from the irqd_affinity_is_managed() check.


+ /* Requires the interrupt to be shut down */
+ if (irqd_is_started(&desc->irq_data))
We're missing the unlock here, right?
Duh yes.

+ return -EBUSY;
+
+ /* Interrupts which are already managed cannot be modified */
+ if (irqd_is_managed(&desc->irq_data))
And here, and I figure that this should be irqd_affinity_is_managed()
More duh:)

I assume you send a fixed variant of this.

Can do.

Thanks,
John