Re: [PATCH] x86/apic: Add retry mechanism to add_pin_to_irq_node()

[Breno Leitao]

Hello Thomas,

On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 07:44:09PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> >> I'm absolutely not convinced by this loop heuristic. That's just a bad
> >> hack.
> >
> > I will not disagree with you here, but I need to use this patch in order
> > to be able t keep the system not panicking and stable while fault
> > injecting slab errors and trying to reproduce a real bug in the network
> > stack.
> 
> Something like the untested below should just work.

Thanks. I've tested in a Skylake machine and I haven't see the crash
running the same test for more than 2 hours.

Feel free to add the following, in case you submit it:
Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>

This is the machine details, if it is useful.

	CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) D-2191A CPU @ 1.60GHz
	PIC: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E IOAPIC

> Thanks,

Thank you!