Re: [patch 22/30] net/mlx5: Replace irq_to_desc() abuse
From: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-12-14 21:14:28
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On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 20:25 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
No driver has any business with the internals of an interrupt descriptor. Storing a pointer to it just to use yet another helper at the actual usage site to retrieve the affinity mask is creative at best. Just because C does not allow encapsulation does not mean that the kernel has no limits.
you can't blame the developers for using stuff from include/linux/ Not all developers are the same, and sometime we don't read in between the lines, you can't assume all driver developers to be expert on irq APIs disciplines. your rules must be programmatically expressed, for instance, you can just hide struct irq_desc and irq_to_desc() in kernel/irq/ and remove them from include/linux/ header files, if you want privacy in your subsystem, don't put all your header files on display under include/linux.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Retrieve a pointer to the affinity mask itself and use that. It's still using an interface which is usually not for random drivers, but definitely less hideous than the previous hack. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <redacted> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_txrx.c | 6 +----- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ struct mlx5e_channel { spinlock_t async_icosq_lock; /* data path - accessed per napi poll */ - struct irq_desc *irq_desc; + const struct cpumask *aff_mask; struct mlx5e_ch_stats *stats; /* control */ --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c@@ -1998,7 +1998,7 @@ static int mlx5e_open_channel(struct mlx c->num_tc = params->num_tc; c->xdp = !!params->xdp_prog; c->stats = &priv->channel_stats[ix].ch; - c->irq_desc = irq_to_desc(irq); + c->aff_mask = irq_get_affinity_mask(irq);
as long as the affinity mask pointer stays the same for the lifetime of the irq vector. Assuming that: Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>