[patch 16/30] mfd: ab8500-debugfs: Remove the racy fiddling with irq_desc

Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 18:12:07 UTC 2020


On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 9:57 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> First of all drivers have absolutely no business to dig into the internals
> of an irq descriptor. That's core code and subject to change. All of this
> information is readily available to /proc/interrupts in a safe and race
> free way.
>
> Remove the inspection code which is a blatant violation of subsystem
> boundaries and racy against concurrent modifications of the interrupt
> descriptor.
>
> Print the irq line instead so the information can be looked up in a sane
> way in /proc/interrupts.

...

> -               seq_printf(s, "%3i:  %6i %4i",
> +               seq_printf(s, "%3i:  %6i %4i %4i\n",

Seems different specifiers, I think the intention was something like
               seq_printf(s, "%3i:  %4i %6i %4i\n",

>                            line,
> +                          line + irq_first,
>                            num_interrupts[line],
>                            num_wake_interrupts[line]);


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko


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