linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Enable interrupts before WAIT instruction.

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Date:	Fri, 3 May 2013 11:54:43 +0200
From:	Jonas Gorski <jogo@...nwrt.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	ralf@...ux-mips.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Enable interrupts before WAIT instruction.

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 2 May 2013, David Daney wrote:
>
>> From: David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
>>
>> As noted by Thomas Gleixner:
>>
>>    commit cdbedc61c8 (mips: Use generic idle loop) broke MIPS as I did
>>    not realize that MIPS wants to invoke the wait instructions with
>>    interrupts enabled.
>>
>> Instead of enabling interrupts in arch_cpu_idle() as Thomas' initial
>> patch does, we follow Linus' suggestion of doing it in the assembly
>> code to prevent the compiler from rearranging things.
>
> Yeah, that looks way more sane.

In a first quick test I can also confirm that it seems to work (as an
alternative to the other fix).


Jonas
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