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    genirq/core: Introduce struct irq_affinity_desc · bec04037
    Dou Liyang authored
    The interrupt affinity management uses straight cpumask pointers to convey
    the automatically assigned affinity masks for managed interrupts. The core
    interrupt descriptor allocation also decides based on the pointer being non
    NULL whether an interrupt is managed or not.
    
    Devices which use managed interrupts usually have two classes of
    interrupts:
    
      - Interrupts for multiple device queues
      - Interrupts for general device management
    
    Currently both classes are treated the same way, i.e. as managed
    interrupts. The general interrupts get the default affinity mask assigned
    while the device queue interrupts are spread out over the possible CPUs.
    
    Treating the general interrupts as managed is both a limitation and under
    certain circumstances a bug. Assume the following situation:
    
     default_irq_affinity = 4..7
    
    So if CPUs 4-7 are offlined, then the core code will shut down the device
    management interrupts because the last CPU in their affinity mask went
    offline.
    
    It's also a limitation because it's desired to allow manual placement of
    the general device interrupts for various reasons. If they are marked
    managed then the interrupt affinity setting from both user and kernel space
    is disabled.
    
    To remedy that situation it's required to convey more information than the
    cpumasks through various interfaces related to interrupt descriptor
    allocation.
    
    Instead of adding yet another argument, create a new data structure
    'irq_affinity_desc' which for now just contains the cpumask. This struct
    can be expanded to convey auxilliary information in the next step.
    
    No functional change, just preparatory work.
    
    [ tglx: Simplified logic and clarified changelog ]
    Suggested-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Suggested-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDou Liyang <douliyangs@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: kashyap.desai@broadcom.com
    Cc: shivasharan.srikanteshwara@broadcom.com
    Cc: sumit.saxena@broadcom.com
    Cc: ming.lei@redhat.com
    Cc: hch@lst.de
    Cc: douliyang1@huawei.com
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181204155122.6327-2-douliyangs@gmail.com
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