Reading /proc/interrupts iterates over the interrupt number space one by
one and looks up the descriptors one by one. That's just a waste of time.
When CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW is enabled this can utilize the maple tree and
cache the descriptor pointer efficiently for the sequence file operations.
Implement a CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW specific version in the core code and
leave the fs/proc/ variant for the legacy architectures which ignore generic
code.
This reduces the time wasted for looking up the next record significantly.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260517194932.165280601@kernel.org
The chip name column in the /proc/interrupt output is 8 characters and
right aligned, which causes visual clutter due to the fixed length and the
alignment. Many interrupt chips, e.g. PCI/MSI[X] have way longer names.
Update the length when a chip is assigned to an interrupt and utilize this
information for the output. Align it left so all chip names start at the
begin of the column.
Update the GDB script as well and disentangle the header maze so it
actually works with all .config combinations.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260517194932.085786035@kernel.org
Quite some architectures have four character wide acronyms for architecture
specific interrupts like IPI, NMI, etc.
The default precision of printing the Linux device interrupt numbers is
three, which causes quite some code to play games with adding or omitting
space after the acronym and the colon in order to keep the per CPU numbers
properly aligned.
Increase the default number precision to four in the core code and get rid
of the space games all over the place. At the same time align all
architecture specific descriptor texts left so that they show up in the
same column as the interrupt chip names, which makes the output more
uniform accross architectures. Fix up the GDB script to this new scheme as
well.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260517194931.839482411@kernel.org
Calculating the precision of the interrupt number column on every initial
show_interrupt() invocation is a pointless exercise as the underlying
maximum number of interrupts rarely changes.
Calculate it only when that number is modified and let show_interrupts()
use the cached value.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com>
Reviewed-by: Radu Rendec <radu@rendec.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260517194931.760664517@kernel.org
show_interrupts() evaluates a boatload of conditions to establish whether
it should expose an interrupt in /proc/interrupts or not.
That can be simplified by caching the condition in an internal status flag,
which is updated when one of the relevant inputs changes.
The irq_desc::kstat_irq check is dropped because visible interrupt
descriptors always have a valid pointer.
As a result the number of instructions and branches for reading
/proc/interrupts is reduced significantly.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com>
Reviewed-by: Radu Rendec <radu@rendec.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260517194931.680943749@kernel.org
Interrupts which are not marked per CPU increment not only the per CPU
statistics, but also the accumulation counter irq_desc::tot_count.
Change the counter to type unsigned long so it does not produce sporadic
zeros due to wrap arounds on 64-bit machines and do a quick check for non
per CPU interrupts. If the counter is zero, then simply emit a full set of
zero strings. That spares the evaluation of the per CPU counters completely
for interrupts with zero events.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com>
Reviewed-by: Radu Rendec <radu@rendec.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260517194931.115522199@kernel.org
A large portion of interrupt count entries are zero. There is no point in
formatting the zero value as it is way cheeper to just emit a constant
string.
Collect the number of consecutive zero counts and emit them in one go
before a non-zero count and at the end of the line.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com>
Reviewed-by: Radu Rendec <radu@rendec.net>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260517194931.034728540@kernel.org
/proc/irq/<n>/ directory names are built in `char name[10]` buffers
with `sprintf(name, "%u", irq)`.
Ten-digit IRQ numbers already need 11 bytes including the trailing NUL, and
current sparse-IRQ configurations allow interrupt numbers in that range.
Size the temporary name buffer for the current decimal form and switch
to bounded formatting when creating or removing the proc entry.
Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260404101001.1-genirq-proc-pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn
Reading /proc/irq/N/smp_affinity* races with irq_set_affinity() and
irq_move_masked_irq(), leading to old or torn output for users.
After a user writes a new CPU mask to /proc/irq/N/affinity*, the syscall
returns success, yet a subsequent read of the same file immediately returns
a value different from what was just written.
That's due to a race between show_irq_affinity() and irq_move_masked_irq()
which lets the read observe a transient, inconsistent affinity mask.
Cure it by guarding the read with irq_desc::lock.
[ tglx: Massaged change log ]
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028090408.76331-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
There are three cases in the genirq code when the irq, as an unsigned
integer variable, is converted to text representation by sprintf().
In two cases it uses '%d' specifier which is for signed values. While
it's not a problem right now, potentially it might be in the future
in case too big (> INT_MAX) number will appear there.
Consistently use '%u' format specifier for @irq which is declared as
unsigned int in all these cases.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250509154643.1499171-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
seq_printf() is more expensive than seq_put_decimal_ull_width() due to the
format string parsing costs.
Profiling on a x86 8-core system indicates seq_printf() takes ~47% samples
of show_interrupts(). Replacing it with seq_put_decimal_ull_width() yields
almost 30% performance gain.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog and fixed up coding style ]
Signed-off-by: David Wang <00107082@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241108160717.9547-1-00107082@163.com
Use the irq_get_nr_irqs() function instead of the global variable
'nr_irqs'. Cache the result of this function in a local variable in
order not to rely on CSE (common subexpression elimination). Prepare
for changing 'nr_irqs' from an exported global variable into a variable
with file scope.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241015190953.1266194-22-bvanassche@acm.org
The kernel already knows at the time of interrupt allocation whether
affinity of an interrupt can be controlled by userspace or not.
It still creates all related procfs control files with read/write
permissions. That's inconsistent and non-intuitive for system
administrators and tools.
Therefore set the file permissions to read-only for such interrupts.
[ tglx: Massage change log, fixed UP build ]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Xie <jeff.xie@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240825131911.107119-1-jeff.xie@linux.dev
Interrupts which have no action and chained interrupts can be
ignored due to the following reasons (as per tglx's comment):
1) Interrupts which have no action are completely uninteresting as
there is no real information attached.
2) Chained interrupts do not have a count at all.
So there is no point to evaluate the number of accounted interrupts before
checking for non-requested or chained interrupts.
Remove the any_count logic and simply check whether the interrupt
descriptor has the kstat_irqs member populated.
[ tglx: Adapted to upstream changes ]
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Huang <ahuang12@lenovo.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jiwei Sun <sunjw10@lenovo.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240515100632.1419-1-ahuang12@lenovo.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87h6f0knau.ffs@tglx/
show_interrupts() unconditionally accumulates the per CPU interrupt
statistics to determine whether an interrupt was ever raised.
This can be avoided for all interrupts which are not strictly per CPU
and not of type NMI because those interrupts provide already an
accumulated counter. The required logic is already implemented in
kstat_irqs().
Split the inner access logic out of kstat_irqs() and use it for
kstat_irqs() and show_interrupts() to avoid the accumulation loop
when possible.
Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Bitao Hu <yaoma@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Liu Song <liusong@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411074134.30922-4-yaoma@linux.alibaba.com
The irq_desc::kstat_irqs member is a per-CPU variable of type int, which is
only capable of counting. A snapshot mechanism for interrupt statistics
will be added soon, which requires an additional variable to store the
snapshot.
To facilitate expansion, convert kstat_irqs here to a struct containing
only the count.
Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Bitao Hu <yaoma@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411074134.30922-2-yaoma@linux.alibaba.com
The HW IRQ numbers generated by the PCI MSI layer can be quite large
on a pSeries machine when running under the IBM Hypervisor and they
appear as negative. Use '%lu' instead to show them correctly.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
KMSAN complains that new_value at cpumask_parse_user() from
write_irq_affinity() from irq_affinity_proc_write() is uninitialized.
[ 148.133411][ T5509] =====================================================
[ 148.135383][ T5509] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in find_next_bit+0x325/0x340
[ 148.137819][ T5509]
[ 148.138448][ T5509] Local variable ----new_value.i@irq_affinity_proc_write created at:
[ 148.140768][ T5509] irq_affinity_proc_write+0xc3/0x3d0
[ 148.142298][ T5509] irq_affinity_proc_write+0xc3/0x3d0
[ 148.143823][ T5509] =====================================================
Since bitmap_parse() from cpumask_parse_user() calls find_next_bit(),
any alloc_cpumask_var() + cpumask_parse_user() sequence has possibility
that find_next_bit() accesses uninitialized cpu mask variable. Fix this
problem by replacing alloc_cpumask_var() with zalloc_cpumask_var().
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210401055823.3929-1-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
