thanks for tracking this down. Could you check whether the problem is
also fixed in latest -tip? In particular the tip/x86/apic branch should
properly solve this. You can pick up -tip via:
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README
but those tip/x86/apic fixes are too intrusive for v2.6.26, so i've
queued up your revert into tip/x86/urgent, for v2.6.26 merging. Would be
nice if you could check -tip though, to make sure we dont reintroduce
the same problem again in v2.6.27.
Ingo
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