Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc1] add local_irq_enable() to cpu_idle()

[Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:59:38 +0100
"Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com> wrote:

> There have been times when having local_irq_enable() in my idle loop
> would have prevented a hang in some of my experimental kernels, too,
> but it's always been because I had screwed up somewhere else and
> forgotten to re-enable interrupts.  Is there some good reason why
> the kernel should end up in idle with interrupts turned off?

After call local_irq_disable(), rest_init()(in init/main.c) calls cpu_idle().

Yoichi