Merge branches 'x86/alternatives', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/commandline', 'x86/crashdump...

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / arch / x86 / kernel / alternative.c

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 65a0c1b4869636122fc22dec84de26788662a2d4..fb04e49776ba308b2cd8f86315bcb7692122ce80 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -231,25 +231,25 @@ static void alternatives_smp_lock(u8 **start, u8 **end, u8 *text, u8 *text_end)
                        continue;
                if (*ptr > text_end)
                        continue;
-               text_poke(*ptr, ((unsigned char []){0xf0}), 1); /* add lock prefix */
+               /* turn DS segment override prefix into lock prefix */
+               text_poke(*ptr, ((unsigned char []){0xf0}), 1);
        };
 }
 
 static void alternatives_smp_unlock(u8 **start, u8 **end, u8 *text, u8 *text_end)
 {
        u8 **ptr;
-       char insn[1];
 
        if (noreplace_smp)
                return;
 
-       add_nops(insn, 1);
        for (ptr = start; ptr < end; ptr++) {
                if (*ptr < text)
                        continue;
                if (*ptr > text_end)
                        continue;
-               text_poke(*ptr, insn, 1);
+               /* turn lock prefix into DS segment override prefix */
+               text_poke(*ptr, ((unsigned char []){0x3E}), 1);
        };
 }