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>
 
 void machine_shutdown(void)
 {
+       unsigned long flags;
        /* Stop the cpus and apics */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
        int reboot_cpu_id;
        smp_send_stop();
 #endif
 
-       local_irq_disable();
+       local_irq_save(flags);
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
        disable_local_APIC();
 
        disable_IO_APIC();
 
-       local_irq_enable();
+       local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
 void machine_emergency_restart(void)
 
 
 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)