From: Nitesh Lal <nilal@redhat.com>
To: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
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Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip:irq/core v1] genirq: remove auto-set of the mask when setting the hint
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 12:57:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFki+LmR-o+Fng21ggy48FUX7RhjjpjO87dn3Ld+L4BK2pSRZg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210504092340.00006c61@intel.com>
On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 12:25 PM Jesse Brandeburg
<jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Robin Murphy wrote:
>
> > On 2021-05-01 03:18, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> > > It was pointed out by Nitesh that the original work I did in 2014
> > > to automatically set the interrupt affinity when requesting a
> > > mask is no longer necessary. The kernel has moved on and no
> > > longer has the original problem, BUT the original patch
> > > introduced a subtle bug when booting a system with reserved or
> > > excluded CPUs. Drivers calling this function with a mask value
> > > that included a CPU that was currently or in the future
> > > unavailable would generally not update the hint.
> > >
> > > I'm sure there are a million ways to solve this, but the simplest
> > > one is to just remove a little code that tries to force the
> > > affinity, as Nitesh has shown it fixes the bug and doesn't seem
> > > to introduce immediate side effects.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I think there are quite a few other drivers now relying
> > on this behaviour, since they are really using irq_set_affinity_hint()
> > as a proxy for irq_set_affinity(). Partly since the latter isn't
> > exported to modules, but also I have a vague memory of it being said
> > that it's nice to update the user-visible hint to match when the
> > affinity does have to be forced to something specific.
> >
> > Robin.
>
> Thanks for your feedback Robin, but there is definitely a bug here that
> is being exposed by this code. The fact that people are using this
> function means they're all exposed to this bug.
>
> Not sure if you saw, but this analysis from Nitesh explains what
> happened chronologically to the kernel w.r.t this code, it's a useful
> analysis! [1]
>
> I'd add in addition that irqbalance daemon *stopped* paying attention
> to hints quite a while ago, so I'm not quite sure what purpose they
> serve.
>
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAFki+Lm0W_brLu31epqD3gAV+WNKOJfVDfX2M8ZM__aj3nv9uA@mail.gmail.com/
>
Wanted to follow up to see if there are any more objections or even
suggestions to take this forward?
--
Thanks
Nitesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-17 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-01 2:18 [PATCH tip:irq/core v1] genirq: remove auto-set of the mask when setting the hint Jesse Brandeburg
2021-05-04 12:15 ` Robin Murphy
2021-05-04 14:29 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-04 16:23 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2021-05-17 16:57 ` Nitesh Lal [this message]
2021-05-17 17:26 ` Robin Murphy
2021-05-17 18:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 18:50 ` Robin Murphy
2021-05-17 19:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 19:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 20:18 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 18:21 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-17 19:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 21:13 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-17 20:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-17 22:44 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-18 0:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-18 0:23 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-20 21:57 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 0:03 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 11:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 12:03 ` [PATCH] genirq: Provide new interfaces for affinity hints Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 15:45 ` Lijun Pan
2021-05-21 21:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-21 16:13 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 21:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-06-04 20:35 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-27 10:03 ` Shung-Hsi Yu
2021-05-27 10:21 ` Shung-Hsi Yu
2021-05-27 13:06 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-28 7:20 ` Shung-Hsi Yu
2021-06-07 17:00 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-06-14 16:12 ` Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 13:46 ` [PATCH tip:irq/core v1] genirq: remove auto-set of the mask when setting the hint Nitesh Lal
2021-05-21 15:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
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