kernel.git/kernel/irq/manage.c, branch linux-5.10.y

genirq: Provide new interfaces for affinity hints

2025-10-02T11:35:39Z

[ Upstream commit 65c7cdedeb3026fabcc967a7aae2f755ad4d0783 ] The discussion about removing the side effect of irq_set_affinity_hint() of actually applying the cpumask (if not NULL) as affinity to the interrupt, unearthed a few unpleasantries: 1) The modular perf drivers rely on the current behaviour for the very wrong reasons. 2) While none of the other drivers prevents user space from changing the affinity, a cursorily inspection shows that there are at least expectations in some drivers. #1 needs to be cleaned up anyway, so that's not a problem #2 might result in subtle regressions especially when irqbalanced (which nowadays ignores the affinity hint) is disabled. Provide new interfaces: irq_update_affinity_hint() - Only sets the affinity hint pointer irq_set_affinity_and_hint() - Set the pointer and apply the affinity to the interrupt Make irq_set_affinity_hint() a wrapper around irq_apply_affinity_hint() and document it to be phased out. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Nitesh Narayan Lal Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ming Lei Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210501021832.743094-1-jesse.brandeburg@intel.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210903152430.244937-2-nitesh@redhat.com Stable-dep-of: 915470e1b44e ("i40e: fix IRQ freeing in i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix error path") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

genirq: Export affinity setter for modules

2025-10-02T11:35:39Z

[ Upstream commit 4d80d6ca5d77fde9880da8466e5b64f250e5bf82 ] Perf modules abuse irq_set_affinity_hint() to set the affinity of system PMU interrupts just because irq_set_affinity() was not exported. The fact that irq_set_affinity_hint() actually sets the affinity is a non-documented side effect and the name is clearly saying it's a hint. To clean this up, export the real affinity setter. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Mark Rutland Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210518093117.968251441@linutronix.de Stable-dep-of: 915470e1b44e ("i40e: fix IRQ freeing in i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix error path") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

genirq/affinity: Add irq_update_affinity_desc()

2025-10-02T11:35:38Z

[ Upstream commit 1d3aec89286254487df7641c30f1b14ad1d127a5 ] Add a function to allow the affinity of an interrupt be switched to managed, such that interrupts allocated for platform devices may be managed. This new interface has certain limitations, and attempts to use it in the following circumstances will fail: - For when the kernel is configured for generic IRQ reservation mode (in config GENERIC_IRQ_RESERVATION_MODE). The reason being that it could conflict with managed vs. non-managed interrupt accounting. - The interrupt is already started, which should not be the case during init - The interrupt is already configured as managed, which means double init Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Garry Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1606905417-183214-2-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com Stable-dep-of: 915470e1b44e ("i40e: fix IRQ freeing in i40e_vsi_request_irq_msix error path") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

task_work: s/task_work_cancel()/task_work_cancel_func()/

2024-08-19T03:40:57Z

commit 68cbd415dd4b9c5b9df69f0f091879e56bf5907a upstream. A proper task_work_cancel() API that actually cancels a callback and not *any* callback pointing to a given function is going to be needed for perf events event freeing. Do the appropriate rename to prepare for that. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240621091601.18227-2-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

irq: Fix typos in comments

2023-03-17T07:45:07Z

[ Upstream commit a359f757965aafd0f58570de95dc6bc06cf12a9c ] Fix ~36 single-word typos in the IRQ, irqchip and irqdomain code comments. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Marc Zyngier Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Stable-dep-of: 6e6f75c9c98d ("irqdomain: Look for existing mapping only once") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

genirq: Add IRQF_NO_AUTOEN for request_irq/nmi()

2023-01-14T09:15:58Z

[ Upstream commit cbe16f35bee6880becca6f20d2ebf6b457148552 ] Many drivers don't want interrupts enabled automatically via request_irq(). So they are handling this issue by either way of the below two: (1) irq_set_status_flags(irq, IRQ_NOAUTOEN); request_irq(dev, irq...); (2) request_irq(dev, irq...); disable_irq(irq); The code in the second way is silly and unsafe. In the small time gap between request_irq() and disable_irq(), interrupts can still come. The code in the first way is safe though it's subobtimal. Add a new IRQF_NO_AUTOEN flag which can be handed in by drivers to request_irq() and request_nmi(). It prevents the automatic enabling of the requested interrupt/nmi in the same safe way as #1 above. With that the various usage sites of #1 and #2 above can be simplified and corrected. Signed-off-by: Barry Song Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302224916.13980-2-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com Stable-dep-of: 99c05e4283a1 ("iio: adis: add '__adis_enable_irq()' implementation") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

genirq: Take the proposed affinity at face value if force==true

2022-12-02T16:40:06Z

From: Marc Zyngier commit c48c8b829d2b966a6649827426bcdba082ccf922 upstream. Although setting the affinity of an interrupt to a set of CPUs that doesn't have any online CPU is generally frowned apon, there are a few limited cases where such affinity is set from a CPUHP notifier, setting the affinity to a CPU that isn't online yet. The saving grace is that this is always done using the 'force' attribute, which gives a hint that the affinity setting can be outside of the online CPU mask and the callsite set this flag with the knowledge that the underlying interrupt controller knows to handle it. This restores the expected behaviour on Marek's system. Fixes: 33de0aa4bae9 ("genirq: Always limit the affinity to online CPUs") Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4b7fc13c-887b-a664-26e8-45aed13f048a@samsung.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220414140011.541725-1-maz@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

genirq: Always limit the affinity to online CPUs

2022-12-02T16:40:06Z

From: Marc Zyngier commit 33de0aa4bae982ed6f7c777f86b5af3e627ac937 upstream. [ Fixed small conflicts due to the HK_FLAG_MANAGED_IRQ flag been renamed on upstream ] When booting with maxcpus= (or even loading a driver while most CPUs are offline), it is pretty easy to observe managed affinities containing a mix of online and offline CPUs being passed to the irqchip driver. This means that the irqchip cannot trust the affinity passed down from the core code, which is a bit annoying and requires (at least in theory) all drivers to implement some sort of affinity narrowing. In order to address this, always limit the cpumask to the set of online CPUs. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220405185040.206297-3-maz@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

genirq: Synchronize interrupt thread startup

2022-05-12T10:25:32Z

commit 8707898e22fd665bc1d7b18b809be4b56ce25bdd upstream. A kernel hang can be observed when running setserial in a loop on a kernel with force threaded interrupts. The sequence of events is: setserial open("/dev/ttyXXX") request_irq() do_stuff() -> serial interrupt -> wake(irq_thread) desc->threads_active++; close() free_irq() kthread_stop(irq_thread) synchronize_irq() <- hangs because desc->threads_active != 0 The thread is created in request_irq() and woken up, but does not get on a CPU to reach the actual thread function, which would handle the pending wake-up. kthread_stop() sets the should stop condition which makes the thread immediately exit, which in turn leaves the stale threads_active count around. This problem was introduced with commit 519cc8652b3a, which addressed a interrupt sharing issue in the PCIe code. Before that commit free_irq() invoked synchronize_irq(), which waits for the hard interrupt handler and also for associated threads to complete. To address the PCIe issue synchronize_irq() was replaced with __synchronize_hardirq(), which only waits for the hard interrupt handler to complete, but not for threaded handlers. This was done under the assumption, that the interrupt thread already reached the thread function and waits for a wake-up, which is guaranteed to be handled before acting on the stop condition. The problematic case, that the thread would not reach the thread function, was obviously overlooked. Make sure that the interrupt thread is really started and reaches thread_fn() before returning from __setup_irq(). This utilizes the existing wait queue in the interrupt descriptor. The wait queue is unused for non-shared interrupts. For shared interrupts the usage might cause a spurious wake-up of a waiter in synchronize_irq() or the completion of a threaded handler might cause a spurious wake-up of the waiter for the ready flag. Both are harmless and have no functional impact. [ tglx: Amended changelog ] Fixes: 519cc8652b3a ("genirq: Synchronize only with single thread on free_irq()") Signed-off-by: Thomas Pfaff Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/552fe7b4-9224-b183-bb87-a8f36d335690@pcs.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

genirq: Disable interrupts for force threaded handlers

2021-03-25T08:04:18Z

commit 81e2073c175b887398e5bca6c004efa89983f58d upstream. With interrupt force threading all device interrupt handlers are invoked from kernel threads. Contrary to hard interrupt context the invocation only disables bottom halfs, but not interrupts. This was an oversight back then because any code like this will have an issue: thread(irq_A) irq_handler(A) spin_lock(&foo->lock); interrupt(irq_B) irq_handler(B) spin_lock(&foo->lock); This has been triggered with networking (NAPI vs. hrtimers) and console drivers where printk() happens from an interrupt which interrupted the force threaded handler. Now people noticed and started to change the spin_lock() in the handler to spin_lock_irqsave() which affects performance or add IRQF_NOTHREAD to the interrupt request which in turn breaks RT. Fix the root cause and not the symptom and disable interrupts before invoking the force threaded handler which preserves the regular semantics and the usefulness of the interrupt force threading as a general debugging tool. For not RT this is not changing much, except that during the execution of the threaded handler interrupts are delayed until the handler returns. Vs. scheduling and softirq processing there is no difference. For RT kernels there is no issue. Fixes: 8d32a307e4fa ("genirq: Provide forced interrupt threading") Reported-by: Johan Hovold Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210317143859.513307808@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman