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Thomas Gleixner 438553958b PCI/MSI: Enable and mask MSI-X early 
The ordering of MSI-X enable in hardware is dysfunctional:

 1) MSI-X is disabled in the control register
 2) Various setup functions
 3) pci_msi_setup_msi_irqs() is invoked which ends up accessing
    the MSI-X table entries
 4) MSI-X is enabled and masked in the control register with the
    comment that enabling is required for some hardware to access
    the MSI-X table

Step #4 obviously contradicts #3. The history of this is an issue with the
NIU hardware. When #4 was introduced the table access actually happened in
msix_program_entries() which was invoked after enabling and masking MSI-X.

This was changed in commit d71d6432e1 ("PCI/MSI: Kill redundant call of
irq_set_msi_desc() for MSI-X interrupts") which removed the table write
from msix_program_entries().

Interestingly enough nobody noticed and either NIU still works or it did
not get any testing with a kernel 3.19 or later.

Nevertheless this is inconsistent and there is no reason why MSI-X can't be
enabled and masked in the control register early on, i.e. move step #4
above to step #1. This preserves the NIU workaround and has no side effects
on other hardware.

Fixes: d71d6432e1 ("PCI/MSI: Kill redundant call of irq_set_msi_desc() for MSI-X interrupts")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210729222542.344136412@linutronix.de
2021-08-10 10:59:20 +02:00
arch A set of perf fixes: 2021-08-08 11:46:13 -07:00
block block-5.14-2021-08-07 2021-08-07 10:26:21 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-07-09 11:00:44 -07:00
Documentation docs: networking: netdevsim rules 2021-08-04 12:43:27 +01:00
drivers PCI/MSI: Enable and mask MSI-X early 2021-08-10 10:59:20 +02:00
fs io_uring-5.14-2021-08-07 2021-08-07 10:34:26 -07:00
include TTY/Serial fixes for 5.14-rc5 2021-08-08 10:23:13 -07:00
init Revert "mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects" 2021-07-17 13:27:00 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-07-02 12:08:10 -07:00
kernel A single timer fix: 2021-08-08 11:53:30 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS Networking fixes for 5.14-rc4, including fixes from bpf, can, WiFi (mac80211) 2021-07-30 16:01:36 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.14-rc5 2021-08-08 13:49:31 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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.