On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:11:59AM +0900, Yoichi Yuasa wrote: > "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > There have been times when having local_irq_enable() in my idle loop > > would have prevented a hang in some of my experimental kernels, too, > > but it's always been because I had screwed up somewhere else and > > forgotten to re-enable interrupts. Is there some good reason why > > the kernel should end up in idle with interrupts turned off? > > After call local_irq_disable(), rest_init()(in init/main.c) calls cpu_idle(). Indeed. Was looking at a kernel with kdb which removes this line. Ralf
