aha/arch/x86
Suresh Siddha 18374d89e5 x86, irq: Allow 0xff for /proc/irq/[n]/smp_affinity on an 8-cpu system
John Blackwood reported:
> on an older Dell PowerEdge 6650 system with 8 cpus (4 are hyper-threaded),
> and  32 bit (x86) kernel, once you change the irq smp_affinity of an irq
> to be less than all cpus in the system, you can never change really the
> irq smp_affinity back to be all cpus in the system (0xff) again,
> even though no error status is returned on the "/bin/echo ff >
> /proc/irq/[n]/smp_affinity" operation.
>
> This is due to that fact that BAD_APICID has the same value as
> all cpus (0xff) on 32bit kernels, and thus the value returned from
> set_desc_affinity() via the cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() function is treated
> as a failure in set_ioapic_affinity_irq_desc(), and no affinity changes
> are made.

set_desc_affinity() is already checking if the incoming cpu mask
intersects with the cpu online mask or not. So there is no need
for the apic op cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() to check again
and return BAD_APICID.

Remove the BAD_APICID return value from cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
and also fix set_desc_affinity() to return -1 instead of using BAD_APICID
to represent error conditions (as cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() can return
logical or physical apicid values and BAD_APICID is really to represent
bad physical apic id).

Reported-by: John Blackwood <john.blackwood@ccur.com>
Root-caused-by: John Blackwood <john.blackwood@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1261103386.2535.409.camel@sbs-t61>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-12-17 22:03:06 -08:00
..
boot x86: Regex support and known-movable symbols for relocs, fix _end 2009-12-14 13:55:20 -08:00
configs
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2009-12-01 15:16:22 +08:00
ia32 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2009-12-08 07:55:01 -08:00
include/asm x86, irq: Allow 0xff for /proc/irq/[n]/smp_affinity on an 8-cpu system 2009-12-17 22:03:06 -08:00
kernel x86, irq: Allow 0xff for /proc/irq/[n]/smp_affinity on an 8-cpu system 2009-12-17 22:03:06 -08:00
kvm x86: i8254.c: Add pr_fmt(fmt) 2009-12-10 08:57:50 +01:00
lguest lguest: move panic notifier registration to its expected place. 2009-09-23 22:26:44 +09:30
lib x86, msr: msrs_alloc/free for CONFIG_SMP=n 2009-12-16 15:36:32 -08:00
math-emu
mm x86: Fix checking of SRAT when node 0 ram is not from 0 2009-12-16 16:43:37 -08:00
oprofile perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
pci const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
power hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events 2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
tools x86: Fix objdump version check in arch/x86/tools/chkobjdump.awk 2009-12-17 15:34:29 -08:00
vdso sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support 2009-11-12 02:05:04 -08:00
video
xen Merge branch 'bugfix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen 2009-12-10 09:35:02 -08:00
Kbuild
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-08 13:38:11 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-08 13:27:33 -08:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-05 15:32:03 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probes 2009-11-17 10:17:47 +01:00
Makefile_32.cpu Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-08 13:38:11 -08:00