[PATCH] x86/x86_64: deferred handling of writes to /proc/irqxx/smp_affinity

When handling writes to /proc/irq, current code is re-programming rte
entries directly. This is not recommended and could potentially cause
chipset's to lockup, or cause missing interrupts.

CONFIG_IRQ_BALANCE does this correctly, where it re-programs only when the
interrupt is pending. The same needs to be done for /proc/irq handling as well.
Otherwise user space irq balancers are really not doing the right thing.

- Changed pending_irq_balance_cpumask to pending_irq_migrate_cpumask for
  lack of a generic name.
- added move_irq out of IRQ_BALANCE, and added this same to X86_64
- Added new proc handler for write, so we can do deferred write at irq
  handling time.
- Display of /proc/irq/XX/smp_affinity used to display CPU_MASKALL, instead
  it now shows only active cpu masks, or exactly what was set.
- Provided a common move_irq implementation, instead of duplicating
  when using generic irq framework.

Tested on i386/x86_64 and ia64 with CONFIG_PCI_MSI turned on and off.
Tested UP builds as well.

MSI testing: tbd: I have cards, need to look for a x-over cable, although I
did test an earlier version of this patch.  Will test in a couple days.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
Grudgingly-acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/hw_irq.h b/include/asm-ia64/hw_irq.h
index 041ab8c51a64..0cf119b42f7d 100644
--- a/include/asm-ia64/hw_irq.h
+++ b/include/asm-ia64/hw_irq.h
@@ -116,13 +116,6 @@ __ia64_local_vector_to_irq (ia64_vector vec)
  * and to obtain the irq descriptor for a given irq number.
  */
 
-/* Return a pointer to the irq descriptor for IRQ.  */
-static inline irq_desc_t *
-irq_descp (int irq)
-{
-        return irq_desc + irq;
-}
-
 /* Extract the IA-64 vector that corresponds to IRQ.  */
 static inline ia64_vector
 irq_to_vector (int irq)