Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] nvme: Fix invalid call to irq_set_affinity_hint()

[Alexander Gordeev]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 03:01:10PM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> >dev->entry[0].vector is initialized in nvme_dev_map(), and it's used
> >for free_irq() above the area of your patch, so I don't think this is
> >actually a bug, though it might be somewhat confusing.
> 
> It is confusing, but there's a reason. :)
> 
> We send a single command using legacy irq to discover how many msix
> vectors we want. The legacy entry needs to be set some time before calling
> request_irq in nvme_configure_admin_queue, but also within nvme_dev_start
> (for power-management). I don't think there's a place to set it that
> won't look odd when looking at nvme_setup_io_queues. I settled on
> 'nvme_dev_map' was because 'nvme_dev_unmap' invalidates the entries,
> so this seemed to provide some amount of symmetry.

I am sending v3 of the patch which concerns Bjorn's comment.

I am also sending two follow-up patches an attempt to make nvme_dev_start()
more readable and fix couple of (what I suspect are) issues.

Thanks!

-- 
Regards,
Alexander Gordeev
agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/