mainlining shenanigans
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On x86, CPUs are limited in the number of interrupts they can have affined to them as they only support 256 interrupt vectors per CPU. 32 vectors are reserved for the CPU and the kernel reserves another 22 for internal purposes. That leaves 202 vectors for assignement to devices. When an interrupt is set up or the affinity is changed by the kernel or the administrator, the vector assignment code attempts to honor the requested affinity mask. If the vector space on the CPUs in that affinity mask is exhausted the code falls back to a wider set of CPUs and assigns a vector on a CPU outside of the requested affinity mask silently. While the effective affinity is reflected in the corresponding /proc/irq/$N/effective_affinity* files the silent breakage of the requested affinity can lead to unexpected behaviour for administrators. Add a pr_warn() when this happens so that adminstrators get at least informed about it in the syslog. [ tglx: Massaged changelog and made the pr_warn() more informative ] Reported-by: djuran@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: djuran@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190822143421.9535-1-nhorman@tuxdriver.com |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.