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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc: Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>,
	Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	rfi@lists.rocketboards.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>,
	Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>,
	Gustavo Pimentel <gustavo.pimentel@synopsys.com>,
	Toan Le <toan@os.amperecomputing.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: altera-msi: Remove irq handler and data in one go
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:19:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7pumo9l.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201112142657.GA1011805@bjorn-Precision-5520>

On Thu, Nov 12 2020 at 08:26, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 02:50:42PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> So I had a closer look and the reason why it only matters for the
>> chained handler case is that
>> 
>>    __irq_set_handler(..., is_chained = true, ...)
>> 
>> starts up the interrupt immediately. So the order for this _must_ be:
>> 
>>     set_handler_data() -> set_handler()
>> 
>> For regular interrupts it's really the mapping and allocation code which
>> does this long before the interrupt is started up. So the ordering does
>> not matter because the handler can't be reached before the full
>> setup is finished and the interrupt is actually started up.
>
> If the order truly doesn't matter here, maybe it's worth changing it
> to "set data, set handler" to avoid the need for a closer look to
> verify correctness and to make it harder to copy and paste to a place
> where it *does* matter?

Makes sense.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-12 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-08 19:11 Martin Kaiser
2020-11-10 21:21 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-10 21:45   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-11 21:43     ` Martin Kaiser
2020-11-11 22:16       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-12 11:28         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-12 13:50           ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-12 14:26             ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-12 18:19               ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2020-11-11 22:01 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] PCI: altera-msi: Fix race in removing chained IRQ handler Martin Kaiser
2020-11-11 22:01   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] PCI: dwc: " Martin Kaiser
2020-11-12 22:10 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] PCI: altera-msi: remove chained IRQ handler and data in one go Martin Kaiser
2020-11-12 22:10   ` [PATCH v3 2/3] PCI: dwc: " Martin Kaiser
2020-11-12 22:10   ` [PATCH v3 3/3] PCI: xgene-msi: Fix race in installing chained irq handler Martin Kaiser
2020-11-13 16:54   ` [PATCH v3 1/3] PCI: altera-msi: remove chained IRQ handler and data in one go Bjorn Helgaas
2021-01-15 21:24 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] PCI: altera-msi: Remove " Martin Kaiser
2021-01-15 21:24   ` [PATCH v4 2/3] PCI: dwc: " Martin Kaiser
2021-01-15 21:24   ` [PATCH v4 3/3] PCI: xgene-msi: Fix race in installing chained irq handler Martin Kaiser
2021-01-18 15:49   ` [PATCH v4 1/3] PCI: altera-msi: Remove IRQ handler and data in one go Lorenzo Pieralisi

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