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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT][PATCH 1/7] time: tick-sched: Reorganize idle tick
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:44:46 +0100
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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?