On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2012-06-04 13:21, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> So this shortcut requires some checks before being applied to a specific
> MSI/MSI-X vector.
>
>
> Taking KVM aside, my general question remains if threaded MSI handlers
> of all devices really need to apply IRQF_ONESHOT though they should have
> no use for it.
In theory no, but we had more than one incident, where threaded irqs
w/o a primary handler and w/o IRQF_ONEHSOT lead to full system
starvation. Linus requested this sanity check and I think it's sane
and required.
In fact it's a non issue for MSI. MSI uses handle_edge_irq which does
not mask the interrupt. IRQF_ONESHOT is a noop for that flow handler.
Thanks,
tglx
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