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?

