If the affinity had been set by the user, then a later request_irq() will honour that setting. But online cpus can have changed. So apply the online mask and for this case as well. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/irq/manage.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6-tip/kernel/irq/manage.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/kernel/irq/manage.c +++ linux-2.6-tip/kernel/irq/manage.c @@ -256,6 +256,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_set_affinity_notif */ static int setup_affinity(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc) { + struct cpumask *set = irq_default_affinity; + /* Excludes PER_CPU and NO_BALANCE interrupts */ if (!irq_can_set_affinity(irq)) return 0; @@ -265,15 +267,13 @@ static int setup_affinity(unsigned int i * one of the targets is online. */ if (desc->status & (IRQ_AFFINITY_SET)) { - if (cpumask_any_and(desc->irq_data.affinity, cpu_online_mask) - < nr_cpu_ids) - goto set_affinity; + if (cpumask_intersects(desc->irq_data.affinity, + cpu_online_mask)) + set = desc->irq_data.affinity; else desc->status &= ~IRQ_AFFINITY_SET; } - - cpumask_and(desc->irq_data.affinity, cpu_online_mask, irq_default_affinity); -set_affinity: + cpumask_and(desc->irq_data.affinity, cpu_online_mask, set); desc->irq_data.chip->irq_set_affinity(&desc->irq_data, desc->irq_data.affinity, false); return 0;