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    x86: fix set_extra_move_desc calling · fa74c907
    Yinghai Lu authored
    Impact: fix bug with irq-descriptor moving when logical flat
    
    Rusty observed:
    
    > The effect of setting desc->affinity (ie. from userspace via sysfs) has varied
    > over time.  In 2.6.27, the 32-bit code anded the value with cpu_online_map,
    > and both 32 and 64-bit did that anding whenever a cpu was unplugged.
    >
    > 2.6.29 consolidated this into one routine (and fixed hotplug) but introduced
    > another variation: anding the affinity with cfg->domain.  Is this right, or
    > should we just set it to what the user said?  Or as now, indicate that we're
    > restricting it.
    
    Eric pointed out that desc->affinity should be what the user requested,
    if it is at all possible to honor the user space request.
    
    This bug got introduced by commit 22f65d31 "x86: Update io_apic.c to use
    new cpumask API".
    
    Fix it by moving the masking to before the descriptor moving ...
    Reported-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    Reported-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    LKML-Reference: <49C94134.4000408@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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