Thread (35 messages) 35 messages, 6 authors, 2021-06-14

Re: [PATCH] genirq: Provide new interfaces for affinity hints

From: Nitesh Lal <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-21 16:13:42
Also in: intel-wired-lan, linux-api, linux-pci, lkml

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 8:03 AM Thomas Gleixner [off-list ref] wrote:
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_apply_affinity_hint()  - Set the pointer and apply the affinity to
                               the interrupt
Any reason why you ruled out the usage of irq_set_affinity_and_hint()?
IMHO the latter makes it very clear what the function is meant to do.

Make irq_set_affinity_hint() a wrapper around irq_apply_affinity_hint() and
document it to be phased out.
Right, so eventually we will be only left with the following APIs that
the driver will use:
irq_set_affinity()- for drivers that only wants to set the affinity mask
irq_apply_affinity_hint/irq_set_affinity_and_hint() - for drivers that
wants to set same affinity and hint mask
irq_update_affinity_hint() - for drivers that only wants to update the hint mask

Thanks for clearing this.
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210501021832.743094-1-jesse.brandeburg@intel.com (local)
---
Applies on:
   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git irq/core
---
 include/linux/interrupt.h |   41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 kernel/irq/manage.c       |    8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -328,7 +328,46 @@ extern int irq_force_affinity(unsigned i
 extern int irq_can_set_affinity(unsigned int irq);
 extern int irq_select_affinity(unsigned int irq);

-extern int irq_set_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m);
+extern int __irq_apply_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m,
+                                    bool setaffinity);
+
+/**
+ * irq_update_affinity_hint - Update the affinity hint
+ * @irq:       Interrupt to update
+ * @cpumask:   cpumask pointer (NULL to clear the hint)
+ *
+ * Updates the affinity hint, but does not change the affinity of the interrupt.
+ */
+static inline int
+irq_update_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m)
+{
+       return __irq_apply_affinity_hint(irq, m, true);
+}
+
+/**
+ * irq_apply_affinity_hint - Update the affinity hint and apply the provided
+ *                          cpumask to the interrupt
+ * @irq:       Interrupt to update
+ * @cpumask:   cpumask pointer (NULL to clear the hint)
+ *
+ * Updates the affinity hint and if @cpumask is not NULL it applies it as
+ * the affinity of that interrupt.
+ */
+static inline int
+irq_apply_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m)
+{
+       return __irq_apply_affinity_hint(irq, m, true);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Deprecated. Use irq_update_affinity_hint() or irq_apply_affinity_hint()
+ * instead.
+ */
+static inline int irq_set_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m)
+{
+       return irq_apply_affinity_hint(irq, cpumask);
+}
+
 extern int irq_update_affinity_desc(unsigned int irq,
                                    struct irq_affinity_desc *affinity);

--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -487,7 +487,8 @@ int irq_force_affinity(unsigned int irq,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_force_affinity);

-int irq_set_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m)
+int __irq_apply_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m,
+                             bool setaffinity)
 {
        unsigned long flags;
        struct irq_desc *desc = irq_get_desc_lock(irq, &flags, IRQ_GET_DESC_CHECK_GLOBAL);
@@ -496,12 +497,11 @@ int irq_set_affinity_hint(unsigned int i
                return -EINVAL;
        desc->affinity_hint = m;
        irq_put_desc_unlock(desc, flags);
-       /* set the initial affinity to prevent every interrupt being on CPU0 */
-       if (m)
+       if (m && setaffinity)
                __irq_set_affinity(irq, m, false);
        return 0;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_set_affinity_hint);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__irq_apply_affinity_hint);

 static void irq_affinity_notify(struct work_struct *work)
 {

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Nitesh
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