John Blackwood reported:
> on an older Dell PowerEdge 6650 system with 8 cpus (4 are hyper-threaded),
> and 32 bit (x86) kernel, once you change the irq smp_affinity of an irq
> to be less than all cpus in the system, you can never change really the
> irq smp_affinity back to be all cpus in the system (0xff) again,
> even though no error status is returned on the "/bin/echo ff >
> /proc/irq/[n]/smp_affinity" operation.
>
> This is due to that fact that BAD_APICID has the same value as
> all cpus (0xff) on 32bit kernels, and thus the value returned from
> set_desc_affinity() via the cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() function is treated
> as a failure in set_ioapic_affinity_irq_desc(), and no affinity changes
> are made.
set_desc_affinity() is already checking if the incoming cpu mask
intersects with the cpu online mask or not. So there is no need
for the apic op cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() to check again
and return BAD_APICID.
Remove the BAD_APICID return value from cpu_mask_to_apicid_and()
and also fix set_desc_affinity() to return -1 instead of using BAD_APICID
to represent error conditions (as cpu_mask_to_apicid_and() can return
logical or physical apicid values and BAD_APICID is really to represent
bad physical apic id).
Reported-by: John Blackwood <john.blackwood@ccur.com>
Root-caused-by: John Blackwood <john.blackwood@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1261103386.2535.409.camel@sbs-t61>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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