x86/ioapic: Cleanup the timer_works() irqflags mess

2020-12-10 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Mark tripped over the creative irqflags handling in the IO-APIC timer delivery check which ends up doing: local_irq_save(flags); local_irq_enable(); local_irq_restore(flags); which triggered a new consistency check he's working on required for replacing the POPF based rest

Re: x86/ioapic: Cleanup the timer_works() irqflags mess

2020-12-10 Thread Jürgen Groß via Virtualization
On 10.12.20 21:15, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Mark tripped over the creative irqflags handling in the IO-APIC timer delivery check which ends up doing: local_irq_save(flags); local_irq_enable(); local_irq_restore(flags); which triggered a new consistency check he's working