Re: [PATCH] x86/apic/vector: Fix ordering in vector assignment

[Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 09:18:22PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Prarit reported that depending on the affinity setting the
> 
>  ' irq $N: Affinity broken due to vector space exhaustion.'
> 
> message is showing up in dmesg, but the vector space on the CPUs in the
> affinity mask is definitely not exhausted.
> 
> Shung-Hsi provided traces and analysis which pinpoints the problem:
> 
> The ordering of trying to assign an interrupt vector in
> assign_irq_vector_any_locked() is simply wrong if the interrupt data has a
> valid node assigned. It does:
> 
>  1) Try the intersection of affinity mask and node mask
>  2) Try the node mask
>  3) Try the full affinity mask
>  4) Try the full online mask
> 
> Obviously #2 and #3 are in the wrong order as the requested affinity
> mask has to take precedence.
> 
> In the observed cases #1 failed because the affinity mask did not contain
> CPUs from node 0. That made it allocate a vector from node 0, thereby
> breaking affinity and emitting the misleading message.
> 
> Revert the order of #2 and #3 so the full affinity mask without the node
> intersection is tried before actually affinity is broken.
> 
> If no node is assigned then only the full affinity mask and if that fails
> the full online mask is tried.
> 
> Fixes: d6ffc6ac83b1 ("x86/vector: Respect affinity mask in irq descriptor")
> Reported-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>
> Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Tested-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

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Peter Xu