Affinity will have dual meaning depends on the type of the irq. If it is a normal irq, it'll have the standard affinity meaning. If it is an IPI, it will hold the IPI mask of the cpus it can talk to. Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/irq.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/irq.h b/include/linux/irq.h index 6bcbd11207ea..7f6dd4eec207 100644 --- a/include/linux/irq.h +++ b/include/linux/irq.h @@ -145,7 +145,9 @@ struct ipi_mapping { * Use accessor functions to deal with it * @node: node index useful for balancing * @handler_data: per-IRQ data for the irq_chip methods - * @affinity: IRQ affinity on SMP + * @affinity: IRQ affinity on SMP. + * If this is an IPI irq data, this will be the IPI mask + * of the cpus it can talk to. * @msi_desc: MSI descriptor * @ipi_mapping: Contains the hwirq mapping of IPIs. * The use of this struct is optional and not all irqchips -- 2.1.0