From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, patrick@patrickmacarthur.net,
mark.b.kavanagh@intel.com, stephen@networkplumber.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: fix unknown symbols
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 03:51:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <72302705-a723-ccb2-05ae-5bc131c0080a@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171013024644.51248-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
On 10/13/2017 3:46 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> This patch partially reverts the commit d196343a258e and adds some
> functions from Markus' previous version of the patch [1].
>
> igb_uio uses pci_msi_unmask_irq() and pci_msi_mask_irq() kernel APIs
> when kernel version is >= 3.19 because these APIs are implemented in
> this Linux kernel version.
>
> But these APIs only exported beginning from Linux kernel 4.5, so before
> this Linux kernel version igb_uio kernel module is not usable,
> and giving following warnings:
> "igb_uio: Unknown symbol pci_msi_unmask_irq"
> "igb_uio: Unknown symbol pci_msi_mask_irq"
>
> The support for these APIs increased to Linux kernel >= 4.5
>
> For older version of Linux kernel unmask_msi_irq() and mask_msi_irq()
> are used but these functions are not exported at all.
> Instead of these functions switched back to previous implementation in
> igb_uio for MSI-X, and for MSI used igbuio_msi_mask_irq() from [1].
>
> Fixes: d196343a258e ("igb_uio: use kernel functions for masking MSI-X")
> Cc: markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de
>
> [1]
> http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/28144/
>
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Hi Markus,
Can you please test MSI interrupts, I used you function but not tested?
Thanks,
ferruh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-13 2:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-13 2:46 Ferruh Yigit
2017-10-13 2:51 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2017-10-13 16:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: fix legacy msi masking Markus Theil
2017-10-13 17:03 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-10-13 19:54 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-10-13 3:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: fix unknown symbols Patrick MacArthur
2017-10-13 13:54 ` Thomas Monjalon
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