Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] genirq: Managed affinity fixes

From: Xiongfeng Wang
Date: Tue Mar 22 2022 - 23:52:54 EST


Hi, Marc

On 2022/3/22 3:36, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> John (and later on David) reported[1] a while ago that booting with
> maxcpus=1, managed affinity devices would fail to get the interrupts
> that were associated with offlined CPUs.
>
> Similarly, Xiongfeng reported[2] that the GICv3 ITS would sometime use
> non-housekeeping CPUs instead of the affinity that was passed down as
> a parameter.
>
> [1] can be fixed by not trying to activate these interrupts if no CPU
> that can satisfy the affinity is present (a patch addressing this was
> already posted[3])
>
> [2] is a consequence of affinities containing non-online CPUs being
> passed down to the interrupt controller driver and the ITS driver
> trying to paper over that by ignoring the affinity parameter and doing
> its own (stupid) thing. It would be better to (a) get the core code to
> remove the offline CPUs from the affinity mask at all times, and (b)
> fix the drivers so that they can trust the core code not to trip them.
>
> This small series, based on 5.17, addresses the above.

I have tested this patchset on D06. It works well with kernel parameter
'maxcpus=1' or 'nohz_full=1-127 isolcpus=nohz,domain,managed_irq,1-127'.
Also the 'effective_affinity' is correct. Thanks!
By the way, I merged the second patch manually because of conflicts.
Maybe I lack some patches on your local repo.

Thanks,
Xiongfeng

>
> Thanks,
>
> M.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/78615d08-1764-c895-f3b7-bfddfbcbdfb9@xxxxxxxxxx
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220124073440.88598-1-wangxiongfeng2@xxxxxxxxxx
> [3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220307190625.254426-1-maz@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Marc Zyngier (3):
> genirq/msi: Shutdown managed interrupts with unsatifiable affinities
> genirq: Always limit the affinity to online CPUs
> irqchip/gic-v3: Always trust the managed affinity provided by the core
> code
>
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 2 +-
> kernel/irq/manage.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++--------
> kernel/irq/msi.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>