The logic in disable_device_interrupts()already skips interrupts marked with IRQF_TIMER,
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On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> > >Benjamin just confirmed that. The logic in disable_device_interrupts()
> > >already skips interrupts marked with IRQF_TIMER, but I suspect that
> > >the hpet/MSI interupts are not marked that way.
> > >
> >
> > For percpu hpet at offline we will have
> > - clockevent shutdown which will disable the interrupt
> > - free_irq that will unregister on CPU DEAD
>
> Well, the interupt in question is on the boot cpu which is not going
> through C