1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 44f2c5f2dda1..640364d9b661 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -613,6 +613,12 @@ void __cpuinit cpu_init(void)
                 set_in_cr4(X86_CR4_TSD);
         }
 
+        /* The CPU hotplug case */
+        if (cpu_gdt_descr->address) {
+                gdt = (struct desc_struct *)cpu_gdt_descr->address;
+                memset(gdt, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+                goto old_gdt;
+        }
         /*
          * This is a horrible hack to allocate the GDT.  The problem
          * is that cpu_init() is called really early for the boot CPU
@@ -631,7 +637,7 @@ void __cpuinit cpu_init(void)
                                 local_irq_enable();
                 }
         }
-
+old_gdt:
         /*
          * Initialize the per-CPU GDT with the boot GDT,
          * and set up the GDT descriptor: