Re: [patch V2 00/19] PCI/MSI, x86: Cure a couple of inconsistencies

Marc Zyngier
2021-08-10T07:49:41Z

On 2021-07-29 22:51, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> A recent discussion about the PCI/MSI management for virtio unearthed a
> violation of the MSI-X specification vs. writing the MSI-X message:
> under
> certain circumstances the entry is written without being masked.
>
> While looking at that and the related violation of the x86 non-remapped
> interrupt affinity mechanism a few other issues were discovered by
> inspection.
>
> The following series addresses these.
>
> Note this does not fix the virtio issue, but while staring at the above
> problems I came up with a plan to address this. I'm still trying to
> convince myself that I can get away without sprinkling locking all over
> the
> place, so don't hold your breath that this will materialize tomorrow.

For the patches I haven't acked yet, and with the fix on patch 18:

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

Thanks,

M.