[PATCH] ARM: gic: fix irq affinity mismatch.
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Sep 24 04:35:30 EDT 2012
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:06:19PM +0900, Chanho Min wrote:
> Even if we set affinity to multiple cpus via procfs, gic_set_affinity
> allows to set one target only. But, '/proc/irq/xxx/smp_affinity' shows
> as we are successful in the setting of multiple affinity. Thus irq_data->
> affinity mismatches with the GICD_ITARGETSRs.
>
> fix it as bellows.
> - Set the default affinity to the boot cpu in gic_dist_init. thereafter,
> irq_data->affinity will be set to default 1-bit affinity.
> - Even if we write multiple bits to smp_affinity, both irq_data and gic
> register will be set one cpu. procfs will show 1 bit affinity as well.
This has come up before. There is no requirement to make the affinity
mask reflect back to userspace what the hardware is doing. So, NAK.
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