Re: [RFC PATCH v2] genirq/cpuhotpug: notify of irq affinity change for offlined cpu.

From: Thomas Gleixner

Date: Tue Jan 13 2026 - 04:25:03 EST


On Tue, Jan 13 2026 at 10:24, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03 2026 at 00:53, Imran Khan wrote:
>> + if (affinity_broken && desc->affinity_notify) {
>> + kref_get(&desc->affinity_notify->kref);
>> + if (!schedule_work(&desc->affinity_notify->work)) {
>> + /* Work was already scheduled, drop our extra ref */
>> + kref_put(&desc->affinity_notify->kref,
>> + desc->affinity_notify->release);
>> + }
>> + }
>
> No, we are not doing random copy&pasta.
>
> Split out the functionality into a function and use it both here and in
> irq_set_affinity_locked().

And while at it you might fix the typos in subject and change log.