On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 11:36:17AM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote: > Oops. You are right. What about using rcu_read_lock() directly? > > > diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/irq.c b/arch/s390/kernel/irq.c > index 3033f616e256..45393919fe61 100644 > --- a/arch/s390/kernel/irq.c > +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/irq.c > @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static void show_msi_interrupt(struct seq_file *p, int irq) > unsigned long flags; > int cpu; > > - irq_lock_sparse(); > + rcu_read_lock(); > desc = irq_to_desc(irq); > if (!desc) > goto out; > @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ static void show_msi_interrupt(struct seq_file *p, int irq) > seq_putc(p, '\n'); > raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->lock, flags); > out: > - irq_unlock_sparse(); > + rcu_read_unlock(); That looks like it should work. Please resend and also add a reference to commit 74bdf7815dfb ("genirq: Speedup show_interrupts()") which explains why this works.