Pull sony into release branch

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / arch / i386 / kernel / smp.c

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c b/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c
index 5285aff8367fec481d33a7ed94c0278815202286..0e8977871b1ffdffd97bb8050625e0a6dd4acc7a 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c
@@ -374,8 +374,7 @@ static void flush_tlb_others(cpumask_t cpumask, struct mm_struct *mm,
        /*
         * i'm not happy about this global shared spinlock in the
         * MM hot path, but we'll see how contended it is.
-        * Temporarily this turns IRQs off, so that lockups are
-        * detected by the NMI watchdog.
+        * AK: x86-64 has a faster method that could be ported.
         */
        spin_lock(&tlbstate_lock);
        
@@ -400,7 +399,7 @@ static void flush_tlb_others(cpumask_t cpumask, struct mm_struct *mm,
 
        while (!cpus_empty(flush_cpumask))
                /* nothing. lockup detection does not belong here */
-               mb();
+               cpu_relax();
 
        flush_mm = NULL;
        flush_va = 0;