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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: don't blindly enable interrupts in die()
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"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:
>
>  Rather than blindly re-enabling interrupts in die(), save their state
>  upon entry and then restore that state.

What is the reason for this change?