On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 2 May 2013, David Daney wrote:
>
>> From: David Daney <david.da...@cavium.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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