[PATCH V4 1/3] driver core: mark device as irq affinity managed if any irq is managed

[John Garry]

+ Marc

On 21/07/2021 08:24, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 09:20:00AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> Just walking the list seems fine to me given that this is not a
>>> performance criticial path.  But what are the locking implications?
>> At the moment there are none because the list is initialized in the
>> setup path and never modified afterwards. Though that might change
>> sooner than later to fix the virtio wreckage vs. MSI-X.
> What is the issue there?  Either way, if we keep the helper in the
> IRQ code it should be easy to spot for anyone adding the locking.
> 
>>> Also does the above imply this won't work for your platform MSI case?
>> The msi descriptors are attached to struct device and independent of
>> platform/PCI/whatever.
> That's what I assumed, but this text from John suggested there is
> something odd about the platform case:
> 
> "Did you consider that for PCI .."
> .

For this special platform MSI case there is a secondary interrupt 
controller (called mbigen) which generates the MSI on behalf of the 
device, which I think the MSI belongs to (and not the device, itself).

See "latter case" mentioned in commit 91f90daa4fb2.

I think Marc and Thomas can explain this much better than I could.

Anyway, as I mentioned earlier, I think that this specific problem is 
unique and can be solved without using a function which examines the 
struct device.msi_list .

Thanks,
John