[PATCH v1 3/3] ARM: tegra: cpuidle driver for tegra
Bedia, Vaibhav
vaibhav.bedia at ti.com
Fri Jan 27 03:39:28 EST 2012
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:40:58, Colin Cross wrote:
> local_irq_enable() is required by the cpuidle call semantics. See
> arch/arm/process.c, it has a WARN_ON(irqs_disabled()) after the
> idle function call. The local_irq_disable() can and probably should
> be dropped, although a comment that the function is called with
> interrupts off and is expected to return with interrupts on would be
> helpful.
>
Ah... I was too fixated on local_irq_disable() and local_irq_enable() in cpu_idle().
Thanks for clarifying.
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