On 2021-07-29 22:51, 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.
For the patches I haven't acked yet, and with the fix on patch 18:
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
M.
