On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:54:45AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "Darrick J. Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:54:34PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> >
> >> > <call to set_affinity>
> >> > [ 256.298787] irq=4341 affinity=d
> >> > <ethernet on irq 4341 stops working>
> >>
> >> And just to make sure, at this point, your MSI irq 4341 affinity
> >> (/proc/irq/4341/smp_affinity) still points to '2'?
> >
> > Actually, it's 0xD. From the kernel's perspective the mask has been
> > updated (and I even stuck a printk into set_msi_irq_affinity to verify
> > that the writes are happening) but ... the hardware doesn't seem to
> > reflect this. I also tried putting read_msi_msg right afterwards to
> > compare contents, though it complained about all the MSIs _except_ for
> > 4341. (Of course, I could just be way off on the effectiveness of
> > that.)
>
> The fact that MSI interrupts are having problems is odd. It is possible
> that we still have a bug in there somewhere but msi interrupts should
> be safe to migrate outside of irq context (no known hardware bugs).
> As we can actually synchronize with the irq source and eliminate all
> of the migration races.
>
> The non-msi case requires hitting a hardware race that is rare enough
> you should not normally have problems.
Yep. But Darrick's seems to say, problem happens consistently.
Anyhow, Darrick there is a general bug in this area, can you try this and
see if it helps?
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/irq.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/irq.c
index 3eaceac..a0e11c9 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/irq.c
@@ -144,17 +144,35 @@ void fixup_irqs(cpumask_t map)
for (irq = 0; irq < NR_IRQS; irq++) {
cpumask_t mask;
+ int break_affinity = 0;
+ int set_affinity = 1;
+
if (irq == 2)
continue;
+ /* irq's are disabled at this point */
+ spin_lock(&irq_desc[irq].lock);
+
cpus_and(mask, irq_desc[irq].affinity, map);
if (any_online_cpu(mask) == NR_CPUS) {
- printk("Breaking affinity for irq %i\n", irq);
+ break_affinity = 1;
mask = map;
}
+
+ irq_desc[irq].chip->mask(irq);
+
if (irq_desc[irq].chip->set_affinity)
irq_desc[irq].chip->set_affinity(irq, mask);
else if (irq_desc[irq].action && !(warned++))
+ set_affinity = 0;
+
+ irq_desc[irq].chip->unmask(irq);
+
+ spin_unlock(&irq_desc[irq].lock);
+
+ if (break_affinity && set_affinity)
+ printk("Broke affinity for irq %i\n", irq);
+ else if (!set_affinity)
printk("Cannot set affinity for irq %i\n", irq);
}
-
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