On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 00:37:08 +0000
Long Li <lon...@microsoft.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:step...@networkplumber.org]
> > Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 8:53 AM
> > To: Long Li <lon...@microsoft.com>
> > Cc: KY Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang
> > <haiya...@microsoft.com>; Bjorn Helgaas <bhelg...@google.com>;
> > de...@linuxdriverproject.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> > p...@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci-hyperv: use kmalloc to allocate hypercall params
> > buffer
> > 
> > On Tue,  8 Nov 2016 14:04:38 -0800
> > Long Li <lon...@exchange.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > + spin_lock_irqsave(&hbus->retarget_msi_interrupt_lock, flags);
> > > +
> > > + params = &hbus->retarget_msi_interrupt_params;
> > > + memset(params, 0, sizeof(*params));
> > > + params->partition_id = HV_PARTITION_ID_SELF;
> > > + params->source = 1; /* MSI(-X) */
> > > + params->address = msi_desc->msg.address_lo;
> > > + params->data = msi_desc->msg.data;
> > > + params->device_id = (hbus->hdev->dev_instance.b[5] << 24) |
> > >                      (hbus->hdev->dev_instance.b[4] << 16) |
> > >                      (hbus->hdev->dev_instance.b[7] << 8) |
> > >                      (hbus->hdev->dev_instance.b[6] & 0xf8) |
> > >                      PCI_FUNC(pdev->devfn);
> > > - params.vector = cfg->vector;
> > > + params->vector = cfg->vector;
> > >
> > >   for_each_cpu_and(cpu, dest, cpu_online_mask)
> > > -         params.vp_mask |= (1ULL <<  
> > vmbus_cpu_number_to_vp_number(cpu));  
> > > +         params->vp_mask |= (1ULL <<  
> > vmbus_cpu_number_to_vp_number(cpu));  
> > > +
> > > + hv_do_hypercall(HVCALL_RETARGET_INTERRUPT, params, NULL);
> > >
> > > - hv_do_hypercall(HVCALL_RETARGET_INTERRUPT, &params, NULL);
> > > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hbus->retarget_msi_interrupt_lock, flags);  
> > 
> > It looks like the additional locking here is being overly paranoid.
> > The caller is already holding the irq descriptor lock. Look at fixup_irqs.  
> 
> You are right. On my test machine, there are two possible places calling 
> hv_irq_unmask(): request _irq() and handle_edge_irq(). They both have 
> desc->lock held when calling .irq_unmask on the chip. A review of the IRQ 
> code shows that desc->lock is always held while calling chip->irq_unmask().
> 
> Since the lock doesn't do any harm and it is not on performance code path, we 
> can remove the lock in the upcoming patches.

Why add it then remove it, your patch hasn't been accepted. Please revise it 
and remove it.
Don't add additional unnecessary code.

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