Re: [PATCH] Remove unnecessary irq disabling

[Andi Kleen]

> > What does that break, or was it already broken and this fixes it?
> I think neither. This function is only called at early bootup,
> (start_secondary() ), and most of its callees have interrupts off anyway.
> But maybe we do lose something. Andi, do you have a word on this?

We need to enable them somewhere, but cpu_idle will do it in the end.
So it should be safe to drop it. I guess keeping them disabled the whole
time will be a little safer against potential races.

I added the patch, but might want some cooking in -mm first because this
is always fragile code.

-Andi
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