Re: [PATCH tip:irq/core v1] genirq: remove auto-set of the mask when setting the hint

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, May 21 2021 at 09:46, Nitesh Lal wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 7:56 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> - Driver use this API to force a certain affinity mask
>> >>   + In this case we have to replace the API with the irq_force_affinity()
>>
>> irq_set_affinity() or irq_set_affinity_and_hint()
>
> Ah yes! my bad. _force_ doesn't check the mask against the online CPUs.
> Hmm, I didn't realize that you also added irq_set_affinity_and_hint()
> in your last patchset.

I did not. It just exposed irq_set_affinity().

See https://lore.kernel.org/r/87wnrs9tvp.ffs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
for the new hint interface I came up with.

Thanks,

        tglx