[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "genirq: Allow forcing cpu affinity of interrupts" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Jun 12 15:25:15 PDT 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    genirq: Allow forcing cpu affinity of interrupts

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.24.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From d8e6babd84a3ae0ea7fdfb6fb7f250d96d2cc9e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:36:44 +0000
Subject: genirq: Allow forcing cpu affinity of interrupts

commit 01f8fa4f01d8362358eb90e412bd7ae18a3ec1ad upstream.

The current implementation of irq_set_affinity() refuses rightfully to
route an interrupt to an offline cpu.

But there is a special case, where this is actually desired. Some of
the ARM SoCs have per cpu timers which require setting the affinity
during cpu startup where the cpu is not yet in the online mask.

If we can't do that, then the local timer interrupt for the about to
become online cpu is routed to some random online cpu.

The developers of the affected machines tried to work around that
issue, but that results in a massive mess in that timer code.

We have a yet unused argument in the set_affinity callbacks of the irq
chips, which I added back then for a similar reason. It was never
required so it got not used. But I'm happy that I never removed it.

That allows us to implement a sane handling of the above scenario. So
the affected SoC drivers can add the required force handling to their
interrupt chip, switch the timer code to irq_force_affinity() and
things just work.

This does not affect any existing user of irq_set_affinity().

Tagged for stable to allow a simple fix of the affected SoC clock
event drivers.

Reported-and-tested-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park at samsung.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com>
Cc: Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com>,
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>,
Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim at samsung.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org,
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140416143315.717251504@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-irq.c |  2 +-
 include/linux/interrupt.h            | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 include/linux/irq.h                  |  3 ++-
 kernel/irq/manage.c                  | 17 ++++++-----------
 4 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-irq.c b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-irq.c
index 46f5dbc..2e65798 100644
--- a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-irq.c
+++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-irq.c
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ static void octeon_irq_cpu_offline_ciu(struct irq_data *data)
 		cpumask_clear(&new_affinity);
 		cpumask_set_cpu(cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask), &new_affinity);
 	}
-	__irq_set_affinity_locked(data, &new_affinity);
+	irq_set_affinity_locked(data, &new_affinity, false);
 }

 static int octeon_irq_ciu_set_affinity(struct irq_data *data,
diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index 5fa5afe..e8401d0 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -239,7 +239,40 @@ static inline int check_wakeup_irqs(void) { return 0; }

 extern cpumask_var_t irq_default_affinity;

-extern int irq_set_affinity(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *cpumask);
+/* Internal implementation. Use the helpers below */
+extern int __irq_set_affinity(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *cpumask,
+			      bool force);
+
+/**
+ * irq_set_affinity - Set the irq affinity of a given irq
+ * @irq:	Interrupt to set affinity
+ * @mask:	cpumask
+ *
+ * Fails if cpumask does not contain an online CPU
+ */
+static inline int
+irq_set_affinity(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *cpumask)
+{
+	return __irq_set_affinity(irq, cpumask, false);
+}
+
+/**
+ * irq_force_affinity - Force the irq affinity of a given irq
+ * @irq:	Interrupt to set affinity
+ * @mask:	cpumask
+ *
+ * Same as irq_set_affinity, but without checking the mask against
+ * online cpus.
+ *
+ * Solely for low level cpu hotplug code, where we need to make per
+ * cpu interrupts affine before the cpu becomes online.
+ */
+static inline int
+irq_force_affinity(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *cpumask)
+{
+	return __irq_set_affinity(irq, cpumask, true);
+}
+
 extern int irq_can_set_affinity(unsigned int irq);
 extern int irq_select_affinity(unsigned int irq);

diff --git a/include/linux/irq.h b/include/linux/irq.h
index fdf2c4a..46e1b1e 100644
--- a/include/linux/irq.h
+++ b/include/linux/irq.h
@@ -375,7 +375,8 @@ extern void remove_percpu_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *act);

 extern void irq_cpu_online(void);
 extern void irq_cpu_offline(void);
-extern int __irq_set_affinity_locked(struct irq_data *data,  const struct cpumask *cpumask);
+extern int irq_set_affinity_locked(struct irq_data *data,
+				   const struct cpumask *cpumask, bool force);

 #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS

diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index f3feefc..edbe80e 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ int irq_do_set_affinity(struct irq_data *data, const struct cpumask *mask,
 	struct irq_chip *chip = irq_data_get_irq_chip(data);
 	int ret;

-	ret = chip->irq_set_affinity(data, mask, false);
+	ret = chip->irq_set_affinity(data, mask, force);
 	switch (ret) {
 	case IRQ_SET_MASK_OK:
 		cpumask_copy(data->affinity, mask);
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ int irq_do_set_affinity(struct irq_data *data, const struct cpumask *mask,
 	return ret;
 }

-int __irq_set_affinity_locked(struct irq_data *data, const struct cpumask *mask)
+int irq_set_affinity_locked(struct irq_data *data, const struct cpumask *mask,
+			    bool force)
 {
 	struct irq_chip *chip = irq_data_get_irq_chip(data);
 	struct irq_desc *desc = irq_data_to_desc(data);
@@ -171,7 +172,7 @@ int __irq_set_affinity_locked(struct irq_data *data, const struct cpumask *mask)
 		return -EINVAL;

 	if (irq_can_move_pcntxt(data)) {
-		ret = irq_do_set_affinity(data, mask, false);
+		ret = irq_do_set_affinity(data, mask, force);
 	} else {
 		irqd_set_move_pending(data);
 		irq_copy_pending(desc, mask);
@@ -186,13 +187,7 @@ int __irq_set_affinity_locked(struct irq_data *data, const struct cpumask *mask)
 	return ret;
 }

-/**
- *	irq_set_affinity - Set the irq affinity of a given irq
- *	@irq:		Interrupt to set affinity
- *	@mask:		cpumask
- *
- */
-int irq_set_affinity(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *mask)
+int __irq_set_affinity(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *mask, bool force)
 {
 	struct irq_desc *desc = irq_to_desc(irq);
 	unsigned long flags;
@@ -202,7 +197,7 @@ int irq_set_affinity(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *mask)
 		return -EINVAL;

 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&desc->lock, flags);
-	ret =  __irq_set_affinity_locked(irq_desc_get_irq_data(desc), mask);
+	ret = irq_set_affinity_locked(irq_desc_get_irq_data(desc), mask, force);
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->lock, flags);
 	return ret;
 }
--
1.9.1




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