Re: [PATCH] Remove unnecessary irq disabling

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Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
RR asks us if it is really necessary to disable interrupts in
setup_secondary_APIC_clock(). The answer is no, since setup_APIC_timer()
starts by saving irq flags, which also disables them.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[email protected]>

--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c
@@ -875,9 +875,7 @@ void __init setup_boot_APIC_clock (void)
void __cpuinit setup_secondary_APIC_clock(void)
 {
-	local_irq_disable(); /* FIXME: Do we need this? --RR */
 	setup_APIC_timer(calibration_result);
-	local_irq_enable();
 }
void disable_APIC_timer(void)

Okay, I'll bite:  before the patch, this code would exit
with interrupts *enabled*, always.   Now it does not.

What does that break, or was it already broken and this fixes it?

Cheers
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