The idle-thread-preemption-fix.patch in mm1/2 leads to a stalled box on PPC machines which do not provide a powersave function and therefor poll the idle loop with interrupts disabled. The patch reenables interrupts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- idle.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- Index: 2.6.10-mm2/arch/ppc/kernel/idle.c =================================================================== --- 2.6.10-mm2/arch/ppc/kernel/idle.c (revision 141) +++ 2.6.10-mm2/arch/ppc/kernel/idle.c (working copy) @@ -41,14 +41,17 @@ if (!need_resched()) { if (powersave != NULL) powersave(); + else { #ifdef CONFIG_SMP - else { set_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG); + local_irq_enable(); while (!need_resched()) barrier(); clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG); +#else + local_irq_enable(); +#endif } -#endif } if (need_resched()) schedule();