On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 09:11:26PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > A recent discussion about the PCI/MSI management for virtio unearthed a > violation of the MSI-X specification vs. writing the MSI-X message: under > certain circumstances the entry is written without being masked. > > While looking at that and the related violation of the x86 non-remapped > interrupt affinity mechanism a few other issues were discovered by > inspection. > > The following series addresses these. > > Note this does not fix the virtio issue, but while staring at the above > problems I came up with a plan to address this. I'm still trying to > convince myself that I can get away without sprinkling locking all over the > place, so don't hold your breath that this will materialize tomorrow. > > The series is also available from git: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/devel.git irq/msi > > Thanks, > > tglx > --- > arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c | 6 +- > arch/x86/kernel/apic/msi.c | 11 +++- > arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 2 > drivers/pci/msi.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- > include/linux/irq.h | 2 > kernel/irq/chip.c | 5 +- > 6 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> for the PCI pieces. I'm happy to take the whole series via PCI, given an x86 ack. Or you can merge with my ack.
