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 Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/reboot.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/reboot.c +++ linux/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) Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/smp.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/smp.c +++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/smp.c @@ -450,13 +450,14 @@ int smp_call_function (void (*func) (voi void smp_stop_cpu(void) { + unsigned long flags; /* * Remove this CPU: */ cpu_clear(smp_processor_id(), cpu_online_map); - local_irq_disable(); + local_irq_save(flags); disable_local_APIC(); - local_irq_enable(); + local_irq_restore(flags); } static void smp_really_stop_cpu(void *dummy)