Re: [patch 07/32] genirq/msi: Count the allocated MSI descriptors

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Nov 28 2021 - 06:10:00 EST


On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 08:45:18PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 27 2021 at 20:22, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Nov 27 2021 at 13:19, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >> On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 02:22:38AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> No changelog?
> >
> > Bah. This one should not be there at all.
> >
> >> Anyway, why do we care about the number of decriptors?
>
> The last part of this really cares about it for the dynamic extension
> part, but that's core code which looks at the counter under the lock.

Ah, that should be documented well as right now you are saying "this is
done lockless" in the comment :)

thanks,

greg k-h