Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/unify-cpu-detect

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
index 6761848329fa..f8843c3ae77d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
@@ -382,14 +382,17 @@ config X86_OOSTORE
 # P6_NOPs are a relatively minor optimization that require a family >=
 # 6 processor, except that it is broken on certain VIA chips.
 # Furthermore, AMD chips prefer a totally different sequence of NOPs
-# (which work on all CPUs).  As a result, disallow these if we're
-# compiling X86_GENERIC but not X86_64 (these NOPs do work on all
-# x86-64 capable chips); the list of processors in the right-hand clause
-# are the cores that benefit from this optimization.
+# (which work on all CPUs).  In addition, it looks like Virtual PC
+# does not understand them.
+#
+# As a result, disallow these if we're not compiling for X86_64 (these
+# NOPs do work on all x86-64 capable chips); the list of processors in
+# the right-hand clause are the cores that benefit from this optimization.
 #
 config X86_P6_NOP
         def_bool y
-        depends on (X86_64 || !X86_GENERIC) && (M686 || MPENTIUMII || MPENTIUMIII || MPENTIUMM || MCORE2 || MPENTIUM4 || MPSC)
+        depends on X86_64
+        depends on (MCORE2 || MPENTIUM4 || MPSC)
 
 config X86_TSC
         def_bool y