Re: [PATCH] msi: Fix the ordering of msix irqs.

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 24 May 2007 15:08:21 -0600
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> Yours looks more complete then my test patch so:
> 
> From: "Mike Miller (OS Dev)" <mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net> writes:
> 
> Found what seems the problem with our vectors being listed backward. In
> drivers/pci/msi.c we should be using list_add_tail rather than list_add to
> preserve the ordering across various kernels. Please consider this for
> inclusion.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/msi.c b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> index 0e67723..d74975d 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/msi.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/msi.c
> @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ static int msi_capability_init(struct pci_dev *dev)
>  			msi_mask_bits_reg(pos, is_64bit_address(control)),
>  			maskbits);
>  	}
> -	list_add(&entry->list, &dev->msi_list);
> +	list_add_tail(&entry->list, &dev->msi_list);
>  
>  	/* Configure MSI capability structure */
>  	ret = arch_setup_msi_irqs(dev, 1, PCI_CAP_ID_MSI);
> @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static int msix_capability_init(struct pci_dev *dev,
>  		entry->dev = dev;
>  		entry->mask_base = base;
>  
> -		list_add(&entry->list, &dev->msi_list);
> +		list_add_tail(&entry->list, &dev->msi_list);
>  	}
>  
>  	ret = arch_setup_msi_irqs(dev, nvec, PCI_CAP_ID_MSIX);

Is this as fragile as I think it is?  What happens when close+open and
rmmod+modprobe happen?  The list gets reordered then?

If this is important then perhaps a big-fat-comment which explains wtf is
going on is needed?