Re: [PATCH v4 14/26] genirq: Add affinity to percpu_devid interrupt requests

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:29:31 +0100
Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add an affinity field to both the irqaction structure and the interrupt
> request primitives. Nothing is making use of it yet, and the only value
> used it NULL, which is used as a shorthand for cpu_possible_mask.

used is NULL

> 
> This will shortly get used with actual affinities.
> 
> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>

With trivial bit of documentation added
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  include/linux/interrupt.h |  5 +++--
>  kernel/irq/manage.c       | 14 ++++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
> index 0ec1a71ab4e84..52147d5f432b3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
> +++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
> @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ struct irqaction {
>  		void		*dev_id;
>  		void __percpu	*percpu_dev_id;
>  	};
> +	const struct cpumask	*affinity;

This structure has kernel-doc that needs an update.

>  	struct irqaction	*next;
>  	irq_handler_t		thread_fn;
>  	struct task_struct	*thread;