Re: [patch 00/47] Sparse irq rework

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> On 10/08/2010 02:54 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > 
> >> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >>> On 10/06/2010 09:01 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >>>> Well, I'm not too happy about this preallocated stuff anyway, which is
> >>>> the reason for the warning below.
> >>>>  
> >>>>> [   80.726176] WARNING: at drivers/pci/intr_remapping.c:67 irq_2_iommu_alloc+0x52/0xdc()
> >>>>> [   80.745935] Hardware name: Sun Fire X4800
> >>>>> [   80.746179] irq_2_iommu!=NULL irq 8
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> no, irq_2_iommu are all dynamically allocated even for irq < 16.
> >>
> >> I know. I was talking about the preallocated irq descriptors and the
> >> handling of it in general.
> >>
> >> Nevertheless, that irq_2_iommu stuff does not need it's own allocation
> >> function. It's bound to a specific irq_cfg anyway, so the next logical
> >> step is to move irq_2_iommu into struct irq_cfg and get rid of the
> >> extra allocation/free in intr_remapping.c.
> > 
> > Forgot to say, that I updated the git tree with all the fallout
> > fixes.
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-sparse-irq.git master
> > 
> > Can you please retest ?
> > 
> 
> one warning and two panics
> 
> [   37.369332] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [   37.383782] WARNING: at drivers/pci/intr_remapping.c:67 irq_2_iommu_alloc+0x52/0xdc()
> [   37.384463] Hardware name: Sun Fire X4800
> [   37.403803] irq_2_iommu!=NULL irq 9
> [   37.404054] Modules linked in:
> [   37.404311] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.36-rc7-tip-yh-01944-ge8a4c5f-dirty #171

Hmm, so that interrupt is already set up in the iommmu.
 
> [   59.429741] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
> [   59.449366] IP: [<ffffffff8147d715>] acpi_pci_irq_find_prt_entry+0x85/0xb1

I can hardly see how this is related to the irq work.

> [   71.076886] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Tainted: G        W   2.6.36-rc7-tip-yh-01944-ge8a4c5f-dirty #171      /Sun Fire x4800
> [   71.096947] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8141e232>]  [<ffffffff8141e232>] strcmp+0x4/0x21

Ditto.

Thanks,

	tglx
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