Re: [patch 0/8] PCI/MSI, x86: Cure a couple of inconsistencies

[Marc Zyngier]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 20:11:26 +0100,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> A recent discussion about the PCI/MSI management for virtio unearthed a
> violation of the MSI-X specification vs. writing the MSI-X message: under
> certain circumstances the entry is written without being masked.
> 
> While looking at that and the related violation of the x86 non-remapped
> interrupt affinity mechanism a few other issues were discovered by
> inspection.
> 
> The following series addresses these.
> 
> Note this does not fix the virtio issue, but while staring at the above
> problems I came up with a plan to address this. I'm still trying to
> convince myself that I can get away without sprinkling locking all over the
> place, so don't hold your breath that this will materialize tomorrow.
> 
> The series is also available from git:
> 
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/devel.git irq/msi
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c |    6 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/apic/msi.c     |   11 +++-
>  arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c         |    2 
>  drivers/pci/msi.c              |   98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  include/linux/irq.h            |    2 
>  kernel/irq/chip.c              |    5 +-
>  6 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

The couple of nits I mentioned notwithstanding, this looks good to me.
I've taken it for a short ride on an arm64 box (both bare metal and
guests), and nothing exploded. Must be good!

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>

	M.

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