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<title>genirq/chip: Don't call add_interrupt_randomness() for NMIs</title>
<updated>2026-05-11T12:56:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-07T11:05:18+00:00</published>
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Recently handle_percpu_devid_irq() was changed to call
add_interrupt_randomness(). This introduced a potential deadlock when
handle_percpu_devid_irq() is used to handle an NMI, which can be
detected with lockdep, e.g.

    ================================
    WARNING: inconsistent lock state
    7.1.0-rc2-pnmi #465 Not tainted
    --------------------------------
    inconsistent {INITIAL USE} -&gt; {IN-NMI} usage.
    perf/695 [HC1[1]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] takes:
    ffff00837dfd3a18 (&amp;base-&gt;lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: lock_timer_base+0x6c/0xac
    {INITIAL USE} state was registered at:
      _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x68/0xb0
      lock_timer_base+0x6c/0xac
      __mod_timer+0x100/0x32c
      add_timer_global+0x2c/0x40
      __queue_delayed_work+0xf0/0x140
      queue_delayed_work_on+0x134/0x138
      mem_cgroup_css_online+0x30c/0x310
      online_css+0x34/0x10c
      cgroup_init_subsys+0x158/0x1c8
      cgroup_init+0x440/0x524
      start_kernel+0x888/0x998

    other info that might help us debug this:
    Possible unsafe locking scenario:
           CPU0
           ----
      lock(&amp;base-&gt;lock);
      &lt;Interrupt&gt;
        lock(&amp;base-&gt;lock);
        *** DEADLOCK ***

    Call trace:
     _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x68/0xb0
     lock_timer_base+0x6c/0xac
     add_timer_on+0x78/0x16c
     add_interrupt_randomness+0x124/0x134
     handle_percpu_devid_irq+0xd4/0x16c
     handle_irq_desc+0x40/0x58
     generic_handle_domain_nmi+0x28/0x50
     __gic_handle_nmi.isra.0+0x4c/0xa0
     gic_handle_irq+0x38/0x2bc
     call_on_irq_stack+0x30/0x48
     do_interrupt_handler+0x80/0x98
     el1_interrupt+0x90/0xac
     el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
     el1h_64_irq+0x80/0x84
     [...]

During review, Thomas pointed out it wouldn't be safe for
handle_percpu_devid_irq() to call add_interrupt_randomness() if it was
used to handle NMIs:

  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87bjgik042.ffs@tglx/

... but evidently people missed that handle_percpu_devid_irq() *is* used
for NMIs.

While it might seem that NMIs should be handled with a separate
handle_percpu_devid_nmi() function, for various structural reasons this was
impractical, and handle_percpu_devid_irq() has been expected to be used for
NMIs since commits:

  21bbbc50f398f ("irqchip/gic-v3: Switch high priority PPIs over to handle_percpu_devid_irq()")
  5ff78c8de9d83 ("genirq: Kill handle_percpu_devid_fasteoi_nmi()")

Taking the above into account, avoid the deadlock by not calling
add_interrupt_randomness() when handle_percpu_devid_irq() is called in an
NMI context. This is consistent with other NNI handling flows, which do not
call add_interrupt_randomness().

At the same time, update the kernel-doc comment to make it clear that
handle_percpu_devid_irq() can be called in NMI context. The rest of
handle_percpu_devid_irq() is currently NMI safe and doesn't need to change.

Fixes: fd7400cfcbaa ("genirq/chip: Invoke add_interrupt_randomness() in handle_percpu_devid_irq()")
Reported-by: Ada Couprie Diaz &lt;ada.coupriediaz@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507110518.3128248-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
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Recently handle_percpu_devid_irq() was changed to call
add_interrupt_randomness(). This introduced a potential deadlock when
handle_percpu_devid_irq() is used to handle an NMI, which can be
detected with lockdep, e.g.

    ================================
    WARNING: inconsistent lock state
    7.1.0-rc2-pnmi #465 Not tainted
    --------------------------------
    inconsistent {INITIAL USE} -&gt; {IN-NMI} usage.
    perf/695 [HC1[1]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] takes:
    ffff00837dfd3a18 (&amp;base-&gt;lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: lock_timer_base+0x6c/0xac
    {INITIAL USE} state was registered at:
      _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x68/0xb0
      lock_timer_base+0x6c/0xac
      __mod_timer+0x100/0x32c
      add_timer_global+0x2c/0x40
      __queue_delayed_work+0xf0/0x140
      queue_delayed_work_on+0x134/0x138
      mem_cgroup_css_online+0x30c/0x310
      online_css+0x34/0x10c
      cgroup_init_subsys+0x158/0x1c8
      cgroup_init+0x440/0x524
      start_kernel+0x888/0x998

    other info that might help us debug this:
    Possible unsafe locking scenario:
           CPU0
           ----
      lock(&amp;base-&gt;lock);
      &lt;Interrupt&gt;
        lock(&amp;base-&gt;lock);
        *** DEADLOCK ***

    Call trace:
     _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x68/0xb0
     lock_timer_base+0x6c/0xac
     add_timer_on+0x78/0x16c
     add_interrupt_randomness+0x124/0x134
     handle_percpu_devid_irq+0xd4/0x16c
     handle_irq_desc+0x40/0x58
     generic_handle_domain_nmi+0x28/0x50
     __gic_handle_nmi.isra.0+0x4c/0xa0
     gic_handle_irq+0x38/0x2bc
     call_on_irq_stack+0x30/0x48
     do_interrupt_handler+0x80/0x98
     el1_interrupt+0x90/0xac
     el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
     el1h_64_irq+0x80/0x84
     [...]

During review, Thomas pointed out it wouldn't be safe for
handle_percpu_devid_irq() to call add_interrupt_randomness() if it was
used to handle NMIs:

  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87bjgik042.ffs@tglx/

... but evidently people missed that handle_percpu_devid_irq() *is* used
for NMIs.

While it might seem that NMIs should be handled with a separate
handle_percpu_devid_nmi() function, for various structural reasons this was
impractical, and handle_percpu_devid_irq() has been expected to be used for
NMIs since commits:

  21bbbc50f398f ("irqchip/gic-v3: Switch high priority PPIs over to handle_percpu_devid_irq()")
  5ff78c8de9d83 ("genirq: Kill handle_percpu_devid_fasteoi_nmi()")

Taking the above into account, avoid the deadlock by not calling
add_interrupt_randomness() when handle_percpu_devid_irq() is called in an
NMI context. This is consistent with other NNI handling flows, which do not
call add_interrupt_randomness().

At the same time, update the kernel-doc comment to make it clear that
handle_percpu_devid_irq() can be called in NMI context. The rest of
handle_percpu_devid_irq() is currently NMI safe and doesn't need to change.

Fixes: fd7400cfcbaa ("genirq/chip: Invoke add_interrupt_randomness() in handle_percpu_devid_irq()")
Reported-by: Ada Couprie Diaz &lt;ada.coupriediaz@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507110518.3128248-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq/chip: Invoke add_interrupt_randomness() in handle_percpu_devid_irq()</title>
<updated>2026-04-02T21:03:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Kelley</name>
<email>mhklinux@outlook.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-02T20:23:59+00:00</published>
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handle_percpu_devid_irq() is a version of handle_percpu_irq() but with the
addition of a pointer to a per-CPU devid.

However, handle_percpu_irq() invokes add_interrupt_randomness(), while
handle_percpu_devid_irq() currently does not.

Add the missing add_interrupt_randomness(), as it is needed when per-CPU
interrupts with devid's are used in VMs for interrupts from the hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260402202400.1707-2-mhklkml@zohomail.com
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<pre>
handle_percpu_devid_irq() is a version of handle_percpu_irq() but with the
addition of a pointer to a per-CPU devid.

However, handle_percpu_irq() invokes add_interrupt_randomness(), while
handle_percpu_devid_irq() currently does not.

Add the missing add_interrupt_randomness(), as it is needed when per-CPU
interrupts with devid's are used in VMs for interrupts from the hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mhklinux@outlook.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260402202400.1707-2-mhklkml@zohomail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'irq-msi-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2026-02-11T00:30:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-11T00:30:29+00:00</published>
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Pull MSI updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Updates for the [PCI] MSI subsystem:

   - Add interrupt redirection infrastructure

     Some PCI controllers use a single demultiplexing interrupt for the
     MSI interrupts of subordinate devices.

     This prevents setting the interrupt affinity of device interrupts,
     which causes device interrupts to be delivered to a single CPU.
     That obviously is counterproductive for multi-queue devices and
     interrupt balancing.

     To work around this limitation the new infrastructure installs a
     dummy irq_set_affinity() callback which captures the affinity mask
     and picks a redirection target CPU out of the mask.

     When the PCI controller demultiplexes the interrupts it invokes a
     new handling function in the core, which either runs the interrupt
     handler in the context of the target CPU or delegates it to
     irq_work on the target CPU.

   - Utilize the interrupt redirection mechanism in the PCI DWC host
     controller driver.

     This allows affinity control for the subordinate device MSI
     interrupts instead of being randomly executed on the CPU which runs
     the demultiplex handler.

   - Replace the binary 64-bit MSI flag with a DMA mask

     Some PCI devices have PCI_MSI_FLAGS_64BIT in the MSI capability,
     but implement less than 64 address bits. This breaks on platforms
     where such a device is assigned an MSI address higher than what's
     supported.

     With the binary 64-bit flag there is no other choice than disabling
     64-bit MSI support which leaves the device disfunctional.

     By using a DMA mask the address limit of a device can be described
     correctly which provides support for the above scenario.

   - Make use of the DMA mask based address limit in the hda/intel and
     radeon drivers to enable them on affected platforms

   - The usual small cleanups and improvements"

* tag 'irq-msi-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ALSA: hda/intel: Make MSI address limit based on the device DMA limit
  drm/radeon: Make MSI address limit based on the device DMA limit
  PCI/MSI: Check the device specific address mask in msi_verify_entries()
  PCI/MSI: Convert the boolean no_64bit_msi flag to a DMA address mask
  genirq/redirect: Prevent writing MSI message on affinity change
  PCI/MSI: Unmap MSI-X region on error
  genirq: Update effective affinity for redirected interrupts
  PCI: dwc: Enable MSI affinity support
  PCI: dwc: Code cleanup
  genirq: Add interrupt redirection infrastructure
  genirq/msi: Correct kernel-doc in &lt;linux/msi.h&gt;
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Pull MSI updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Updates for the [PCI] MSI subsystem:

   - Add interrupt redirection infrastructure

     Some PCI controllers use a single demultiplexing interrupt for the
     MSI interrupts of subordinate devices.

     This prevents setting the interrupt affinity of device interrupts,
     which causes device interrupts to be delivered to a single CPU.
     That obviously is counterproductive for multi-queue devices and
     interrupt balancing.

     To work around this limitation the new infrastructure installs a
     dummy irq_set_affinity() callback which captures the affinity mask
     and picks a redirection target CPU out of the mask.

     When the PCI controller demultiplexes the interrupts it invokes a
     new handling function in the core, which either runs the interrupt
     handler in the context of the target CPU or delegates it to
     irq_work on the target CPU.

   - Utilize the interrupt redirection mechanism in the PCI DWC host
     controller driver.

     This allows affinity control for the subordinate device MSI
     interrupts instead of being randomly executed on the CPU which runs
     the demultiplex handler.

   - Replace the binary 64-bit MSI flag with a DMA mask

     Some PCI devices have PCI_MSI_FLAGS_64BIT in the MSI capability,
     but implement less than 64 address bits. This breaks on platforms
     where such a device is assigned an MSI address higher than what's
     supported.

     With the binary 64-bit flag there is no other choice than disabling
     64-bit MSI support which leaves the device disfunctional.

     By using a DMA mask the address limit of a device can be described
     correctly which provides support for the above scenario.

   - Make use of the DMA mask based address limit in the hda/intel and
     radeon drivers to enable them on affected platforms

   - The usual small cleanups and improvements"

* tag 'irq-msi-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ALSA: hda/intel: Make MSI address limit based on the device DMA limit
  drm/radeon: Make MSI address limit based on the device DMA limit
  PCI/MSI: Check the device specific address mask in msi_verify_entries()
  PCI/MSI: Convert the boolean no_64bit_msi flag to a DMA address mask
  genirq/redirect: Prevent writing MSI message on affinity change
  PCI/MSI: Unmap MSI-X region on error
  genirq: Update effective affinity for redirected interrupts
  PCI: dwc: Enable MSI affinity support
  PCI: dwc: Code cleanup
  genirq: Add interrupt redirection infrastructure
  genirq/msi: Correct kernel-doc in &lt;linux/msi.h&gt;
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<entry>
<title>genirq/redirect: Prevent writing MSI message on affinity change</title>
<updated>2026-01-29T22:49:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-27T21:30:16+00:00</published>
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The interrupts which are handled by the redirection infrastructure provide
a irq_set_affinity() callback, which solely determines the target CPU for
redirection via irq_work and und updates the effective affinity mask.

Contrary to regular MSI interrupts this affinity setting does not change
the underlying interrupt message as the message is only created at setup
time to deliver to the demultiplexing interrupt.

Therefore the message write in msi_domain_set_affinity() is a pointless
exercise. In principle the write is harmless, but a Tegra system exposes a
full system hang during suspend due to that write.

It's unclear why the check for the PCI device state PCI_D0 in
pci_msi_domain_write_msg(), which prevents the actual hardware access if
a device is in powered down state, fails on this particular system, but
that's a different problem which needs to be investigated by the Tegra
experts.

The irq_set_affinity() callback can advise msi_domain_set_affinity() not to
write the MSI message by returning IRQ_SET_MASK_OK_DONE instead of
IRQ_SET_MASK_OK. Do exactly that.

Just to make it clear again:

This is not a correctness issue of the redirection code as returning
IRQ_SET_MASK_OK in that context is completely correct. From the core
code point of view this is solely a optimization to avoid an redundant
hardware write.

As a byproduct it papers over the underlying problem on the Tegra platform,
which fails to put the PCIe device[s] out of PCI_D0 despite the fact that
the devices and busses have been shut down. The redirect infrastructure
just unearthed the underlying issue, which is prone to happen in quite some
other code paths which use the PCI_D0 check to prevent hardware access to
powered down devices.

This therefore has neither a 'Fixes:' nor a 'Closes:' tag associated as the
underlying problem, which is outside the scope of the interrupt code, is
still unresolved.

Reported-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4e5b349c-6599-4871-9e3b-e10352ae0ca0@nvidia.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/87tsw6aglz.ffs@tglx
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The interrupts which are handled by the redirection infrastructure provide
a irq_set_affinity() callback, which solely determines the target CPU for
redirection via irq_work and und updates the effective affinity mask.

Contrary to regular MSI interrupts this affinity setting does not change
the underlying interrupt message as the message is only created at setup
time to deliver to the demultiplexing interrupt.

Therefore the message write in msi_domain_set_affinity() is a pointless
exercise. In principle the write is harmless, but a Tegra system exposes a
full system hang during suspend due to that write.

It's unclear why the check for the PCI device state PCI_D0 in
pci_msi_domain_write_msg(), which prevents the actual hardware access if
a device is in powered down state, fails on this particular system, but
that's a different problem which needs to be investigated by the Tegra
experts.

The irq_set_affinity() callback can advise msi_domain_set_affinity() not to
write the MSI message by returning IRQ_SET_MASK_OK_DONE instead of
IRQ_SET_MASK_OK. Do exactly that.

Just to make it clear again:

This is not a correctness issue of the redirection code as returning
IRQ_SET_MASK_OK in that context is completely correct. From the core
code point of view this is solely a optimization to avoid an redundant
hardware write.

As a byproduct it papers over the underlying problem on the Tegra platform,
which fails to put the PCIe device[s] out of PCI_D0 despite the fact that
the devices and busses have been shut down. The redirect infrastructure
just unearthed the underlying issue, which is prone to happen in quite some
other code paths which use the PCI_D0 check to prevent hardware access to
powered down devices.

This therefore has neither a 'Fixes:' nor a 'Closes:' tag associated as the
underlying problem, which is outside the scope of the interrupt code, is
still unresolved.

Reported-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4e5b349c-6599-4871-9e3b-e10352ae0ca0@nvidia.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/87tsw6aglz.ffs@tglx
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<entry>
<title>genirq/chip: Change irq_chip_pm_put() return type to void</title>
<updated>2026-01-16T19:28:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-08T15:05:37+00:00</published>
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The irq_chip_pm_put() return value is only used in __irq_do_set_handler()
to trigger a WARN_ON() if it is negative, but doing so is not useful
because irq_chip_pm_put() simply passes the pm_runtime_put() return value
to its callers.

Returning an error code from pm_runtime_put() merely means that it has
not queued up a work item to check whether or not the device can be
suspended and there are many perfectly valid situations in which that
can happen, like after writing "on" to the devices' runtime PM "control"
attribute in sysfs for one example.

For this reason, modify irq_chip_pm_put() to discard the pm_runtime_put()
return value, change its return type to void, and drop the WARN_ON()
around the irq_chip_pm_put() invocation from __irq_do_set_handler().
Also update the irq_chip_pm_put() kerneldoc comment to be more accurate.

This will facilitate a planned change of the pm_runtime_put() return
type to void in the future.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/5075294.31r3eYUQgx@rafael.j.wysocki
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The irq_chip_pm_put() return value is only used in __irq_do_set_handler()
to trigger a WARN_ON() if it is negative, but doing so is not useful
because irq_chip_pm_put() simply passes the pm_runtime_put() return value
to its callers.

Returning an error code from pm_runtime_put() merely means that it has
not queued up a work item to check whether or not the device can be
suspended and there are many perfectly valid situations in which that
can happen, like after writing "on" to the devices' runtime PM "control"
attribute in sysfs for one example.

For this reason, modify irq_chip_pm_put() to discard the pm_runtime_put()
return value, change its return type to void, and drop the WARN_ON()
around the irq_chip_pm_put() invocation from __irq_do_set_handler().
Also update the irq_chip_pm_put() kerneldoc comment to be more accurate.

This will facilitate a planned change of the pm_runtime_put() return
type to void in the future.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/5075294.31r3eYUQgx@rafael.j.wysocki
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Update effective affinity for redirected interrupts</title>
<updated>2026-01-13T08:59:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Radu Rendec</name>
<email>rrendec@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-12T21:14:02+00:00</published>
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For redirected interrupts, irq_chip_redirect_set_affinity() does not
update the effective affinity mask, which then triggers the warning in
irq_validate_effective_affinity(). Also, because the effective affinity
mask is empty, the cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), m) condition in
demux_redirect_remote() is always false, and the interrupt is always
redirected, even if it's already running on the target CPU.

Set the effective affinity mask to be the same as the requested affinity
mask. It's worth noting that irq_do_set_affinity() filters out offline
CPUs before calling chip-&gt;irq_set_affinity() (unless `force` is set), so
the mask passed to irq_chip_redirect_set_affinity() is already filtered.

The solution is not ideal because it may lie about the effective
affinity of the demultiplexed ("child") interrupt. If the requested
affinity mask includes multiple CPUs, the effective affinity, in
reality, is the intersection between the requested mask and the
demultiplexing ("parent") interrupt's effective affinity mask, plus
the first CPU in the requested mask.

Accurately describing the effective affinity of the demultiplexed
interrupt is not trivial because it requires keeping track of the
demultiplexing interrupt's effective affinity. That is tricky in the
context of CPU hot(un)plugging, where interrupt migration ordering is
not guaranteed. The solution in the initial version of the fixed patch,
which stored the first CPU of the demultiplexing interrupt's effective
affinity in the `target_cpu` field, has its own drawbacks and
limitations.

Fixes: fcc1d0dabdb6 ("genirq: Add interrupt redirection infrastructure")
Reported-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radu Rendec &lt;rrendec@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112211402.2927336-1-rrendec@redhat.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/44509520-f29b-4b8a-8986-5eae3e022eb7@nvidia.com/
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For redirected interrupts, irq_chip_redirect_set_affinity() does not
update the effective affinity mask, which then triggers the warning in
irq_validate_effective_affinity(). Also, because the effective affinity
mask is empty, the cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), m) condition in
demux_redirect_remote() is always false, and the interrupt is always
redirected, even if it's already running on the target CPU.

Set the effective affinity mask to be the same as the requested affinity
mask. It's worth noting that irq_do_set_affinity() filters out offline
CPUs before calling chip-&gt;irq_set_affinity() (unless `force` is set), so
the mask passed to irq_chip_redirect_set_affinity() is already filtered.

The solution is not ideal because it may lie about the effective
affinity of the demultiplexed ("child") interrupt. If the requested
affinity mask includes multiple CPUs, the effective affinity, in
reality, is the intersection between the requested mask and the
demultiplexing ("parent") interrupt's effective affinity mask, plus
the first CPU in the requested mask.

Accurately describing the effective affinity of the demultiplexed
interrupt is not trivial because it requires keeping track of the
demultiplexing interrupt's effective affinity. That is tricky in the
context of CPU hot(un)plugging, where interrupt migration ordering is
not guaranteed. The solution in the initial version of the fixed patch,
which stored the first CPU of the demultiplexing interrupt's effective
affinity in the `target_cpu` field, has its own drawbacks and
limitations.

Fixes: fcc1d0dabdb6 ("genirq: Add interrupt redirection infrastructure")
Reported-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radu Rendec &lt;rrendec@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112211402.2927336-1-rrendec@redhat.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/44509520-f29b-4b8a-8986-5eae3e022eb7@nvidia.com/
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<title>genirq: Add interrupt redirection infrastructure</title>
<updated>2025-12-15T21:30:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Radu Rendec</name>
<email>rrendec@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-28T21:20:53+00:00</published>
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Add infrastructure to redirect interrupt handler execution to a
different CPU when the current CPU is not part of the interrupt's CPU
affinity mask.

This is primarily aimed at (de)multiplexed interrupts, where the child
interrupt handler runs in the context of the parent interrupt handler,
and therefore CPU affinity control for the child interrupt is typically
not available.

With the new infrastructure, the child interrupt is allowed to freely
change its affinity setting, independently of the parent. If the
interrupt handler happens to be triggered on an "incompatible" CPU (a
CPU that's not part of the child interrupt's affinity mask), the handler
is redirected and runs in IRQ work context on a "compatible" CPU.

No functional change is being made to any existing irqchip driver, and
irqchip drivers must be explicitly modified to use the newly added
infrastructure to support interrupt redirection.

Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radu Rendec &lt;rrendec@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/878qpg4o4t.ffs@tglx/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251128212055.1409093-2-rrendec@redhat.com
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Add infrastructure to redirect interrupt handler execution to a
different CPU when the current CPU is not part of the interrupt's CPU
affinity mask.

This is primarily aimed at (de)multiplexed interrupts, where the child
interrupt handler runs in the context of the parent interrupt handler,
and therefore CPU affinity control for the child interrupt is typically
not available.

With the new infrastructure, the child interrupt is allowed to freely
change its affinity setting, independently of the parent. If the
interrupt handler happens to be triggered on an "incompatible" CPU (a
CPU that's not part of the child interrupt's affinity mask), the handler
is redirected and runs in IRQ work context on a "compatible" CPU.

No functional change is being made to any existing irqchip driver, and
irqchip drivers must be explicitly modified to use the newly added
infrastructure to support interrupt redirection.

Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radu Rendec &lt;rrendec@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/878qpg4o4t.ffs@tglx/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251128212055.1409093-2-rrendec@redhat.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'irq-core-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-12-02T17:14:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-02T17:14:26+00:00</published>
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Pull irq core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Updates for the interrupt core and treewide cleanups:

   - Rework of the Per Processor Interrupt (PPI) management on ARM[64]

     PPI support was built under the assumption that the systems are
     homogenous so that the same CPU local device types are connected to
     them. That's unfortunately wishful thinking and created horrible
     workarounds.

     This rework provides affinity management for PPIs so that they can
     be individually configured in the firmware tables and mops up the
     related drivers all over the place.

   - Prevent CPUSET/isolation changes to arbitrarily affine interrupt
     threads to random CPUs, which ignores user or driver settings.

   - Plug a harmless race in the interrupt affinity proc interface,
     which allows to see a half updated mask

   - Adjust the priority of secondary interrupt threads on RT, so that
     the combination of primary and secondary thread emulates the
     hardware interrupt plus thread scenario. Having them at the same
     priority can cause starvation issues in some drivers"

* tag 'irq-core-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  genirq: Remove cpumask availability check on kthread affinity setting
  genirq: Fix interrupt threads affinity vs. cpuset isolated partitions
  genirq: Prevent early spurious wake-ups of interrupt threads
  genirq: Use raw_spinlock_irq() in irq_set_affinity_notifier()
  genirq/manage: Reduce priority of forced secondary interrupt handler
  genirq/proc: Fix race in show_irq_affinity()
  genirq: Fix percpu_devid irq affinity documentation
  perf: arm_pmu: Kill last use of per-CPU cpu_armpmu pointer
  irqdomain: Kill of_node_to_fwnode() helper
  genirq: Kill irq_{g,s}et_percpu_devid_partition()
  irqchip: Kill irq-partition-percpu
  irqchip/apple-aic: Drop support for custom PMU irq partitions
  irqchip/gic-v3: Drop support for custom PPI partitions
  coresight: trbe: Request specific affinities for per CPU interrupts
  perf: arm_spe_pmu: Request specific affinities for per CPU interrupts
  perf: arm_pmu: Request specific affinities for per CPU NMIs/interrupts
  genirq: Add request_percpu_irq_affinity() helper
  genirq: Allow per-cpu interrupt sharing for non-overlapping affinities
  genirq: Update request_percpu_nmi() to take an affinity
  genirq: Add affinity to percpu_devid interrupt requests
  ...
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Pull irq core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Updates for the interrupt core and treewide cleanups:

   - Rework of the Per Processor Interrupt (PPI) management on ARM[64]

     PPI support was built under the assumption that the systems are
     homogenous so that the same CPU local device types are connected to
     them. That's unfortunately wishful thinking and created horrible
     workarounds.

     This rework provides affinity management for PPIs so that they can
     be individually configured in the firmware tables and mops up the
     related drivers all over the place.

   - Prevent CPUSET/isolation changes to arbitrarily affine interrupt
     threads to random CPUs, which ignores user or driver settings.

   - Plug a harmless race in the interrupt affinity proc interface,
     which allows to see a half updated mask

   - Adjust the priority of secondary interrupt threads on RT, so that
     the combination of primary and secondary thread emulates the
     hardware interrupt plus thread scenario. Having them at the same
     priority can cause starvation issues in some drivers"

* tag 'irq-core-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  genirq: Remove cpumask availability check on kthread affinity setting
  genirq: Fix interrupt threads affinity vs. cpuset isolated partitions
  genirq: Prevent early spurious wake-ups of interrupt threads
  genirq: Use raw_spinlock_irq() in irq_set_affinity_notifier()
  genirq/manage: Reduce priority of forced secondary interrupt handler
  genirq/proc: Fix race in show_irq_affinity()
  genirq: Fix percpu_devid irq affinity documentation
  perf: arm_pmu: Kill last use of per-CPU cpu_armpmu pointer
  irqdomain: Kill of_node_to_fwnode() helper
  genirq: Kill irq_{g,s}et_percpu_devid_partition()
  irqchip: Kill irq-partition-percpu
  irqchip/apple-aic: Drop support for custom PMU irq partitions
  irqchip/gic-v3: Drop support for custom PPI partitions
  coresight: trbe: Request specific affinities for per CPU interrupts
  perf: arm_spe_pmu: Request specific affinities for per CPU interrupts
  perf: arm_pmu: Request specific affinities for per CPU NMIs/interrupts
  genirq: Add request_percpu_irq_affinity() helper
  genirq: Allow per-cpu interrupt sharing for non-overlapping affinities
  genirq: Update request_percpu_nmi() to take an affinity
  genirq: Add affinity to percpu_devid interrupt requests
  ...
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<entry>
<title>genirq: Allow per-cpu interrupt sharing for non-overlapping affinities</title>
<updated>2025-10-27T16:16:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>maz@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-20T12:29:33+00:00</published>
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Interrupt sharing for percpu-devid interrupts is forbidden, and for good
reasons. These are interrupts generated *from* a CPU and handled by itself
(timer, for example). Nobody in their right mind would put two devices on
the same pin (and if they have, they get to keep the pieces...).

But this also prevents more benign cases, where devices are connected
to groups of CPUs, and for which the affinities are not overlapping.
Effectively, the only thing they share is the interrupt number, and
nothing else.

Tweak the definition of IRQF_SHARED applied to percpu_devid interrupts to
allow this particular use case. This results in extra validation at the
point of the interrupt being setup and freed, as well as a tiny bit of
extra complexity for interrupts at handling time (to pick the correct
irqaction).

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251020122944.3074811-17-maz@kernel.org
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Interrupt sharing for percpu-devid interrupts is forbidden, and for good
reasons. These are interrupts generated *from* a CPU and handled by itself
(timer, for example). Nobody in their right mind would put two devices on
the same pin (and if they have, they get to keep the pieces...).

But this also prevents more benign cases, where devices are connected
to groups of CPUs, and for which the affinities are not overlapping.
Effectively, the only thing they share is the interrupt number, and
nothing else.

Tweak the definition of IRQF_SHARED applied to percpu_devid interrupts to
allow this particular use case. This results in extra validation at the
point of the interrupt being setup and freed, as well as a tiny bit of
extra complexity for interrupts at handling time (to pick the correct
irqaction).

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251020122944.3074811-17-maz@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>genirq: Kill handle_percpu_devid_fasteoi_nmi()</title>
<updated>2025-10-27T16:16:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>maz@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-20T12:29:28+00:00</published>
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There is no in-tree user of this flow handler anymore, so simply remove it.

Suggested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251020122944.3074811-12-maz@kernel.org
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There is no in-tree user of this flow handler anymore, so simply remove it.

Suggested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251020122944.3074811-12-maz@kernel.org
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