Re: [patch 16/16] x86/entry: Disable interrupts in IDTENTRY

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Feb 26 2020 - 04:23:53 EST


On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:33:37PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Not all exceptions guarantee to return with interrupts disabled. Disable
> them in idtentry_exit() which is invoked on all regular (non IST) exception
> entry points. Preparatory patch for further consolidation of the return
> code.

ISTR a patch that undoes cond_local_irq_enable() in the various trap
handlers. Did that get lost or is that still on the TODO list somewhere?

Once we do that, this can turn into an assertion that IRQs are in fact
disabled.