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

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

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 876e91890777ae9758e5efcb7dc72075a26e341e..ec7a2ba9bce8062d870448ce5a5292b81b0d6dd8 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -185,7 +185,8 @@ static void mwait_idle(void)
 static void poll_idle(void)
 {
        local_irq_enable();
-       cpu_relax();
+       while (!need_resched())
+               cpu_relax();
 }
 
 /*