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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-05-25 16:59:47 +0200
committerViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>2013-03-12 14:56:33 +0530
commit430219a653ec0e8bc2297db1a3402913bc2073b2 (patch)
tree23d1a751f1ebd9aeecad4d1fb116f7e5c07c789d
parentf6161aa153581da4a3867a2d1a7caf4be19b6ec9 (diff)
genirq: Add default affinity mask command line option
If we isolate CPUs, then we don't want random device interrupts on them. Even w/o the user space irq balancer enabled we can end up with irqs on non boot cpus. Allow to restrict the default irq affinity mask. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt9
-rw-r--r--kernel/irq/irqdesc.c21
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 4609e81dbc3..32d3c0da4c8 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1189,6 +1189,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
See comment before ip2_setup() in
drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c.
+ irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
+ Format:
+ <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
+ or
+ <cpu number>-<cpu number>
+ (must be a positive range in ascending order)
+ or a mixture
+ <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
+
irqfixup [HW]
When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
diff --git a/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c b/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
index 192a302d6cf..473b2b6eccb 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
@@ -23,10 +23,27 @@
static struct lock_class_key irq_desc_lock_class;
#if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
+static int __init irq_affinity_setup(char *str)
+{
+ zalloc_cpumask_var(&irq_default_affinity, GFP_NOWAIT);
+ cpulist_parse(str, irq_default_affinity);
+ /*
+ * Set at least the boot cpu. We don't want to end up with
+ * bugreports caused by random comandline masks
+ */
+ cpumask_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(), irq_default_affinity);
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("irqaffinity=", irq_affinity_setup);
+
static void __init init_irq_default_affinity(void)
{
- alloc_cpumask_var(&irq_default_affinity, GFP_NOWAIT);
- cpumask_setall(irq_default_affinity);
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
+ if (!irq_default_affinity)
+ zalloc_cpumask_var(&irq_default_affinity, GFP_NOWAIT);
+#endif
+ if (cpumask_empty(irq_default_affinity))
+ cpumask_setall(irq_default_affinity);
}
#else
static void __init init_irq_default_affinity(void)