linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 08/14] irq: implement irq_send

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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:41:32 +0100
From:	Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@...tec.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	<marc.zyngier@....com>, <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	<ralf@...ux-mips.org>, <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 08/14] irq: implement irq_send_ipi

On 10/13/2015 02:40 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Qais Yousef wrote:
>
> Lacks kerneldoc
>
>> +int __irq_desc_send_ipi(struct irq_desc *desc, const struct ipi_mask *dest)
>> +{
>> +	struct irq_data *data = irq_desc_get_irq_data(desc);
>> +	struct irq_chip *chip = irq_data_get_irq_chip(data);
>> +
>> +	if (!chip || !chip->irq_send_ipi)
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Do not validate the mask for IPIs marked global. These are
>> +	 * regular IPIs so we can avoid the operation as their target
>> +	 * mask is the cpu_possible_mask.
>> +	 */
>> +	if (!dest->global) {
>> +		if (!bitmap_subset(dest->cpumask, data->ipi_mask.cpumask,
>> +				   dest->nbits))
>> +			return -EINVAL;
>> +	}
> This looks half thought out. You rely on the caller getting the global
> bit right. There should be a sanity check for this versus
> data->ipi_mask and also you need to validate nbits.

Yes I might have rushed this part as I did it last. I'll improve it.

>
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(irq_send_ipi);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL please
>
>

OK.

Thanks,
Qais
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