Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] idle: move the cpuidle entry point to the genericidle loop

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 06:28:52PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Ok, I think the mess is coming from 'default_idle' which does not re-enable
> the local_irq but used from different places like amd_e400_idle and
> apm_cpu_idle.
> 
> void default_idle(void)
> {
>         trace_cpu_idle_rcuidle(1, smp_processor_id());
>         safe_halt();
>         trace_cpu_idle_rcuidle(PWR_EVENT_EXIT, smp_processor_id());
> }
> 
> Considering the system configured without cpuidle because this one *always*
> enable the local irq, we have the different cases:
> 
> x86_idle = default_idle();
> ==> local_irq_enable is missing
> 

safe_halt() is "sti; hlt" and so very much does the irq_enable.
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