Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86/paravirt: Use normal calling sequences for irq enable/disable
  x86: fix kernel panic on 32 bits when profiling
  x86: Fix Suspend to RAM freeze on Acer Aspire 1511Lmi laptop
  x86, vmi: Mark VMI deprecated and schedule it for removal

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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 89a47b5aff07..04e6c819b28a 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -451,3 +451,33 @@ Why:	OSS sound_core grabs all legacy minors (0-255) of SOUND_MAJOR
         will also allow making ALSA OSS emulation independent of
         sound_core.  The dependency will be broken then too.
 Who:    Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What:   Support for VMware's guest paravirtuliazation technique [VMI] will be
+        dropped.
+When:   2.6.37 or earlier.
+Why:    With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies
+        from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these
+        techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform.
+        These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the
+        performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware
+        expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of
+        years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this
+        feature from the hypervisor. We will be removing this feature from the
+        Kernel too. Right now we are targeting 2.6.37 but can retire earlier if
+        technical reasons (read opportunity to remove major chunk of pvops)
+        arise.
+
+        Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels
+        still work fine on VMware's platform.
+        Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are,
+        Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence
+        releases for these products will continue supporting VMI.
+
+        For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this,
+        http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html
+
+Who:    Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
+
+----------------------------