Re: console: lockup on boot

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ok, I'm going to revert that commit.  The games it plays with cpu
> numbers and preemption make me worried, and it looks silly.
>
> If the only reason for that patch is interrupt latency, then if the
> "preempt_disable()" had been done *before* restoring irq's, none of
> those "let's reload the CPU number" games would have been necessary,
> and the patch could have been smaller.

Ugh. It doesn't revert cleanly, so I guess I'm not just reverting it
after all. Jan?

               Linus
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