linux-kernel - [PATCHv2] s390/irq: utilize RCU instead of irq_lock_sparse() in show_msi

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Date:   Fri, 22 Apr 2022 18:02:12 +0800
From:   Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>
To:     linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCHv2] s390/irq: utilize RCU instead of irq_lock_sparse() in show_msi_interrupt()

As demonstrated by commit 74bdf7815dfb ("genirq: Speedup show_interrupts()"),
irq_desc can be accessed safely in RCU read section.

Hence here resorting to rcu read lock to get rid of irq_lock_sparse().

Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
To: linux-s390@...r.kernel.org

---
 arch/s390/kernel/irq.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/irq.c b/arch/s390/kernel/irq.c
index 3033f616e256..45393919fe61 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/irq.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static void show_msi_interrupt(struct seq_file *p, int irq)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int cpu;
 
-	irq_lock_sparse();
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	desc = irq_to_desc(irq);
 	if (!desc)
 		goto out;
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ static void show_msi_interrupt(struct seq_file *p, int irq)
 	seq_putc(p, '\n');
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->lock, flags);
 out:
-	irq_unlock_sparse();
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.31.1