[PATCH] x86_64: Don't enable interrupt unconditionally in reboot path

When they were disabled before (e.g. after a panic) it's better
to keep them off, otherwise followon panics can happen from timer
interrupt handlers etc.

Drawback is that pageup in the console won't work anymore though.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/reboot.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/reboot.c
index 47f95687905f..97804bc2c0a0 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/reboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ static inline void kb_wait(void)
 
 void machine_shutdown(void)
 {
+        unsigned long flags;
         /* Stop the cpus and apics */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
         int reboot_cpu_id;
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ void machine_shutdown(void)
         smp_send_stop();
 #endif
 
-        local_irq_disable();
+        local_irq_save(flags);
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
         disable_local_APIC();
@@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ void machine_shutdown(void)
 
         disable_IO_APIC();
 
-        local_irq_enable();
+        local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
 void machine_emergency_restart(void)