[44/99] cpuidle: always return with interrupts enabled

[Greg KH]

2.6.31-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 246eb7f0ed1a8aeddec5313137767658f378949b upstream.

In the case where cpuidle_idle_call() returns before changing state due to
a need_resched(), it was returning with IRQs disabled.

The idle path assumes that the platform specific idle code returns with
interrupts enabled (although this too is undocumented AFAICT) and on ARM
we have a WARN_ON(!(irqs_disabled()) when returning from the idle loop, so
the user-visible effects were only a warning since interrupts were
eventually re-enabled later.

On x86, this same problem exists, but there is no WARN_ON() to detect it.
As on ARM, the interrupts are eventually re-enabled, so I'm not sure of
any actual bugs triggered by this.  It's primarily a
correctness/consistency fix.

This patch ensures IRQs are (re)enabled before returning.

Reported-by: Hemanth V <hemanthv@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
@@ -75,8 +75,11 @@ static void cpuidle_idle_call(void)
 #endif
 	/* ask the governor for the next state */
 	next_state = cpuidle_curr_governor->select(dev);
-	if (need_resched())
+	if (need_resched()) {
+		local_irq_enable();
 		return;
+	}
+
 	target_state = &dev->states[next_state];
 
 	/* enter the state and update stats */


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