Re: start_kernel(): bug: interrupts were enabled early

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 14:57 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> The question still remains what the incremental cost is of doing
> irqsave/irqrestore. 

The only other option is to have local_irq_enable() check a global
(system_state ?) before enabling. Almost as gross ...

Cheers,
Ben.


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