From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch V2 20/23] PCI/MSI: Move msi_lock to struct pci_dev
In-Reply-To: <20211208152925.GU6385@nvidia.com>
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Date:   Wed, 08 Dec 2021 21:56:50 +0100
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On Wed, Dec 08 2021 at 11:29, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 11:27:56PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>  	if (!desc->pci.msi_attrib.can_mask)
>
> It looks like most of the time this is called by an irq_chip, except
> for a few special cases list pci_msi_shutdown()
>
> Is this something that should ideally go away someday and use some
> lock in the irq_chip - not unlike what we've thought is needed for
> IMS?

Some day we'll have that yes.