> irq_create_affinity_masks can easily return NULL when there are not
> enough "free" vectors available to spread, while the memory allocation
> failure for the CPU masks not only is unlikely, but also relatively
> harmless as the system will work just fine except for non-optimally
> spread vectors. Thus remove the warnings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Yes, this makes the warning go away but driver still loads.
> ---
> drivers/pci/msi.c | 13 +++----------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/msi.c b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> index 253d92409bb3..2225afc1cbbb 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/msi.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> @@ -538,12 +538,9 @@ msi_setup_entry(struct pci_dev *dev, int nvec, const struct irq_affinity *affd)
> struct msi_desc *entry;
> u16 control;
>
> - if (affd) {
> + if (affd)
> masks = irq_create_affinity_masks(nvec, affd);
> - if (!masks)
> - dev_err(&dev->dev, "can't allocate MSI affinity masks for %d vectors\n",
> - nvec);
> - }
> +
>
> /* MSI Entry Initialization */
> entry = alloc_msi_entry(&dev->dev, nvec, masks);
> @@ -679,12 +676,8 @@ static int msix_setup_entries(struct pci_dev *dev, void __iomem *base,
> struct msi_desc *entry;
> int ret, i;
>
> - if (affd) {
> + if (affd)
> masks = irq_create_affinity_masks(nvec, affd);
> - if (!masks)
> - dev_err(&dev->dev, "can't allocate MSI-X affinity masks for %d vectors\n",
> - nvec);
> - }
>
> for (i = 0, curmsk = masks; i < nvec; i++) {
> entry = alloc_msi_entry(&dev->dev, 1, curmsk);
>
--
Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx)
