[patch 36/39] PCI/MSI: Validate MSIX contiguous restriction early

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at nvidia.com
Thu Nov 17 05:00:27 AEDT 2022


On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 02:55:12PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> With interrupt domains the sanity check for MSI-X vector validation can be
> done _before_ any allocation happens. The sanity check only applies to the
> allocation functions which have an 'entries' array argument. The entries
> array is filled by the caller with the requested MSI-X indicies. Some drivers
> have gaps in the index space which is not supported on all architectures.
> 
> The PCI/MSI irqdomain has a 'feature' bit to enforce this validation late
> during the allocation phase.
> 
> Just do it right away before doing any other work along with the other
> sanity checks on that array.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/msi/msi.c |   11 +++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>

Jason


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