On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 11:44 AM, Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 11:24:00PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> +/**
>> + * tick_nohz_idle_prepare - prepare for entering idle on the current CPU.
>> + *
>> + * Called when we start the idle loop.
>> + */
>> +void tick_nohz_idle_prepare(void)
>> +{
>> + __tick_nohz_idle_prepare();
>> +
>> + local_irq_enable();
>> +}
>
> I really dislike the asymmetry in IRQ state you introduced here.
> __tick_nohz_idle_prepare() disables IRQs. Must we do that?
Not really, but at the cost of a tiny bit of duplicated code.
