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Date:	Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:25:49 +0800
From:	Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
To:	"Liu, Chuansheng" <chuansheng.liu@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/fixup_irq: using the cpu_online_mask instead of
 cpu_all_mask

On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 06:55 +0000, Liu, Chuansheng wrote:
> From: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@...el.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] x86/fixup_irq: using the cpu_online_mask instead of cpu_all_mask
> 
> When one CPU is going down, and this CPU is the last one in irq affinity,
> current code is setting cpu_all_mask as the new affinity for that irq.
> 
> But for some system the firmware maybe send the interrupt to each CPU
> in irq affinity averagely, and cpu_all_mask include all CPUs.
> 
> Here replacing cpu_all_mask with cpu_online_mask, it is more reasonable
> and fittable.
It's a good finding. The issue exists on Medfield Android mobile. 


> 
> Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@...el.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/irq.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
> index 7ad683d..d44f782 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
> @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ void fixup_irqs(void)
>  
>                 if (cpumask_any_and(affinity, cpu_online_mask) >= nr_cpu_ids) {
>                         break_affinity = 1;
> -                       affinity = cpu_all_mask;
> +                       affinity = cpu_online_mask;
>                 }
>  
>                 chip = irq_data_get_irq_chip(data);


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