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@ 2008-04-29 17:19   ` Greg KH
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From: Greg KH @ 2008-04-29 17:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, stable
  Cc: Justin Forbes, Zwane Mwaikambo, Theodore Ts'o, Randy Dunlap,
	Dave Jones, Chuck Wolber, Chris Wedgwood, Michael Krufky,
	Chuck Ebbert, Domenico Andreoli, torvalds, akpm, alan, netdev,
	Peter P Waskiewicz Jr

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2.6.25-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: PJ Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>

commit 9d9ad4b51d2b29b5bbeb4011f5e76f7538119cf9 upstream

This bug was introduced in the 2.6.24 i386/x86_64 tree merge, where
MSI-X vector allocation will eventually fail.  The cause is the new
bit array tracking used vectors is not getting cleared properly on
IRQ destruction on the 32-bit APIC code.

This can be seen easily using the ixgbe 10 GbE driver on multi-core
systems by simply loading and unloading the driver a few times.
Depending on the number of available vectors on the host system, the
MSI-X allocation will eventually fail, and the driver will only be
able to use legacy interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c
@@ -2477,6 +2477,7 @@ void destroy_irq(unsigned int irq)
 	dynamic_irq_cleanup(irq);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&vector_lock, flags);
+	clear_bit(irq_vector[irq], used_vectors);
 	irq_vector[irq] = 0;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vector_lock, flags);
 }

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