Re: [PATCH] Add intr_mask() / intr_unmask() interface to mask / unmask individual interrupt sources

> On Aug 23, 2019, at 11:43 PM, Maxime Villard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> One possible problem though:
> 
> -	(*pic->pic_hwunmask)(pic, pin);
> +	isp->is_distribute_pending = false;
> +	if (isp->is_mask_count == 0)
> 
> You get interrupted here, intr_mask_xcall() comes in and does is_mask_count++,
> then calls pic->pic_hwmask().
> 
> +		(*pic->pic_hwunmask)(pic, pin);
> 
> Here it gets unmasked but with is_mask_count==1.

Hm, intr_mask_xcall() should only get invoked via a call to intr_mask_internal(), which takes the cpu_lock before performing any cross-calls. 

The code you quote in intr_set_affinity() is called via intr_distribute_locked(), which is called via interrupt_distribute() with the cpu_lock held as well.  So I think these are already safely serialized, although I could add an extra measure of safety by disabling interrupts on the current CPU around those 3 lines of code to make absolutely sure that cross-call doesn't arrive until we're done.

-- thorpej