Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:29:40 -0500
From: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v3] SGI RTC: add RTC system interrupt
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 03:08:29PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> > +void uv_rtc_timer_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > +{
> > +	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
> > +
> > +	ack_APIC_irq();
> > +
> > +	exit_idle();
> > +
> > +	irq_enter();
> > +
> > +	if (uv_rtc_interrupt_extension)
> > +		uv_rtc_interrupt_extension();
> > +
> > +	irq_exit();
> > +
> > +	set_irq_regs(old_regs);
> > +}
> 
> hm, the exit_idle() looks weird - why is it done? If we get an IRQ 
> then the CPU will exit idle state anyway.

Ingo,

I'm not quite sure what you mean here.  Are you referring to an explicit call to exit_idle() that is done somewhere else (such as do_IRQ())?
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