2022-05-14 02:06:31

by Dave Jiang

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: idxd: Remove unnecessary synchronize_irq() before free_irq()


On 5/13/2022 1:16 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> From: Minghao Chi <[email protected]>
>
> Calling synchronize_irq() right before free_irq() is quite useless. On one
> hand the IRQ can easily fire again before free_irq() is entered, on the
> other hand free_irq() itself calls synchronize_irq() internally (in a race
> condition free way) before any state associated with the IRQ is freed.

Fair enough. Thanks.

Acked-by: Dave Jiang <[email protected]>


>
> Reported-by: Zeal Robot <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Minghao Chi <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/dma/idxd/device.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/idxd/device.c b/drivers/dma/idxd/device.c
> index 5363fb9218f2..9dd8e6bb21e6 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/idxd/device.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/idxd/device.c
> @@ -1179,7 +1179,6 @@ void idxd_wq_free_irq(struct idxd_wq *wq)
> struct idxd_device *idxd = wq->idxd;
> struct idxd_irq_entry *ie = &wq->ie;
>
> - synchronize_irq(ie->vector);
> free_irq(ie->vector, ie);
> idxd_flush_pending_descs(ie);
> if (idxd->request_int_handles)
> --
> 2.25.1
>
>