In case the affinity of an interrupt was broken, a printk is emitted. But if the affinity cannot be set at all due to a missing irq_set_affinity() callback or due to a failing callback, the message is still printed preceeded by a warning/error. That makes no sense whatsoever. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/irq/cpuhotplug.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/irq/cpuhotplug.c +++ b/kernel/irq/cpuhotplug.c @@ -37,11 +37,14 @@ static bool migrate_one_irq(struct irq_d c = irq_data_get_irq_chip(d); if (!c->irq_set_affinity) { pr_debug("IRQ%u: unable to set affinity\n", d->irq); + ret = false; } else { int r = irq_do_set_affinity(d, affinity, false); - if (r) + if (r) { pr_warn_ratelimited("IRQ%u: set affinity failed(%d).\n", d->irq, r); + ret = false; + } } return ret;