genirq: Add default affinity mask command line option
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 3 Feb 2016 18:52:23 +0000 (19:52 +0100)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:03:42 +0000 (15:03 +0100)
If we isolate CPUs, then we don't want random device interrupts on them. Even
w/o the user space irq balancer enabled we can end up with irqs on non boot
cpus and chasing newly requested interrupts is a tedious task.

Allow to restrict the default irq affinity mask.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1602031948190.25254@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
kernel/irq/irqdesc.c

index 551ecf09c8dd820be865ebbbc22fa6b5f608dd98..87298f8592b7381bd5cb601cd453169ac1b32ee5 100644 (file)
@@ -1687,6 +1687,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
        ip=             [IP_PNP]
                        See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
 
+       irqaffinity=    [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
+                       Format:
+                       <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
+                       or
+                       <cpu number>-<cpu number>
+                       (must be a positive range in ascending order)
+                       or a mixture
+                       <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
+
        irqfixup        [HW]
                        When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
                        for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken
index 0409da0bcc3358b6b49ba6a79a339cf2176897ff..0ccd028817d7136ce7bd1faf10c6630690e2264e 100644 (file)
 static struct lock_class_key irq_desc_lock_class;
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
+static int __init irq_affinity_setup(char *str)
+{
+       zalloc_cpumask_var(&irq_default_affinity, GFP_NOWAIT);
+       cpulist_parse(str, irq_default_affinity);
+       /*
+        * Set at least the boot cpu. We don't want to end up with
+        * bugreports caused by random comandline masks
+        */
+       cpumask_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(), irq_default_affinity);
+       return 1;
+}
+__setup("irqaffinity=", irq_affinity_setup);
+
 static void __init init_irq_default_affinity(void)
 {
-       alloc_cpumask_var(&irq_default_affinity, GFP_NOWAIT);
-       cpumask_setall(irq_default_affinity);
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
+       if (!irq_default_affinity)
+               zalloc_cpumask_var(&irq_default_affinity, GFP_NOWAIT);
+#endif
+       if (cpumask_empty(irq_default_affinity))
+               cpumask_setall(irq_default_affinity);
 }
 #else
 static void __init init_irq_default_affinity(void)