We do it to make it close to x86_64. The later needs it,
otherwise the nmi watchdog can get into the scene and kill us
with a hammer.
Enabling irqs here used to trigger a bug in i386. This is because
time irq handling relies upon structures that are only initialized
after smp initcalls (More precisely, it will find
per_cpu(hrtimer_bases, cpu)->cb_pending list not initialized and crash)
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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