Re: [PATCH] x86/ioapic: Fix the vector_irq[] is corrupted randomly

From: Suresh Siddha
Date: Mon Oct 29 2012 - 16:21:28 EST


On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 00:15 +0800, Chuansheng Liu wrote:
> Not all irq chips are IO-APIC chip.
>
> In our system, there are many demux GPIO interrupts except for the
> io-apic chip interrupts, and these GPIO interrupts are belonged
> to other irq chips, the chip data is not type of struct irq_cfg
> either.
>
> But in function __setup_vector_irq(), it listed all allocated irqs,
> and presume all irq chip is ioapic_chip and the chip data is type
> of struct irq_cfg, it possibly causes the vector_irq is corrupted
> randomly.
>
> For example, one irq 258 is not io-apic chip irq, in __setup_vector_irq(),
> the chip data is forced to be used as struct irq_cfg, then the value
> cfg->domain and cfg->vector are wrong to be used to write vector_irq:
> vector = cfg->vector;
> per_cpu(vector_irq, cpu)[vector] = irq;
>
> This patch use the .flags to identify if the irq chip is io-apic.

I have a feeling that your gpio driver is abusing the 'chip_data' in the
struct irq_data. Shouldn't the driver be using 'handler_data' instead?

>From include/linux/irq.h:
* @handler_data: per-IRQ data for the irq_chip methods
* @chip_data: platform-specific per-chip private data for the chip
* methods, to allow shared chip implementations

Also, how are these routed to the processors and the mechanism of the
vector assignment for these irq's? I presume irq_cfg is needed for the
setup and the interrupt migration from one cpu to another.

What am I missing?

thanks,
suresh

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