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x86: Fix 32-bit MSI-X allocation leakage 

This bug was introduced in the 2.6.24 i386/x86_64 tree merge, where
MSI-X vector allocation will eventually fail.  The cause is the new
bit array tracking used vectors is not getting cleared properly on
IRQ destruction on the 32-bit APIC code.

This can be seen easily using the ixgbe 10 GbE driver on multi-core
systems by simply loading and unloading the driver a few times.
Depending on the number of available vectors on the host system, the
MSI-X allocation will eventually fail, and the driver will only be
able to use legacy interrupts.

I am generating the same patch for both stable trees for 2.6.24 and
2.6.25.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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PJ Waskiewicz 2008-04-25 17:58:52 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -2444,6 +2444,7 @@ void destroy_irq(unsigned int irq)
dynamic_irq_cleanup(irq);
spin_lock_irqsave(&vector_lock, flags);
clear_bit(irq_vector[irq], used_vectors);
irq_vector[irq] = 0;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vector_lock, flags);
}