linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] genirq/affinity: Add irq_update_affinity

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Date:   Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:57:03 +0000
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        rafael@...nel.org, martin.petersen@...cle.com, jejb@...ux.ibm.com,
        linuxarm@...wei.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] genirq/affinity: Add irq_update_affinity_desc()

On 2020-11-26 16:52, John Garry wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> 
>>> 
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/log/?h=irq/hacks
>> 
>> 
>> ok, I'll have a look
> 
> I tried that and it doesn't look to work.
> 
> I find that for the its_msi_prepare() call, its_dev->shared does not
> get set, as MSI_ALLOC_FLAGS_SHARED_DEVICE is not set in info->flags.
> 
> If I understand the code correctly, MSI_ALLOC_FLAGS_SHARED_DEVICE is
> supposed to be set in info->flags in platform_msi_set_desc(), but this
> is called per-msi after its_msi_prepare(), so we don't the flags set
> at the right time. That's how it looks to me...

Meh. I was trying multiple things, and of course commited the worse
possible approach.

I've updated the branch, having verified that we do get the flag in
the ITS now.

Thanks,

         M.
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