1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
index dc7dd7648ec5..6e19da122ae3 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ extern void ia64_setup_printk_clock(void);
 
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpuinfo_ia64, cpu_info);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, local_per_cpu_offset);
-DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8);
 unsigned long ia64_cycles_per_usec;
 struct ia64_boot_param *ia64_boot_param;
 struct screen_info screen_info;
@@ -869,6 +868,7 @@ void __cpuinit
 cpu_init (void)
 {
         extern void __cpuinit ia64_mmu_init (void *);
+        static unsigned long max_num_phys_stacked = IA64_NUM_PHYS_STACK_REG;
         unsigned long num_phys_stacked;
         pal_vm_info_2_u_t vmi;
         unsigned int max_ctx;
@@ -982,7 +982,10 @@ cpu_init (void)
                 num_phys_stacked = 96;
         }
         /* size of physical stacked register partition plus 8 bytes: */
-        __get_cpu_var(ia64_phys_stacked_size_p8) = num_phys_stacked*8 + 8;
+        if (num_phys_stacked > max_num_phys_stacked) {
+                ia64_patch_phys_stack_reg(num_phys_stacked*8 + 8);
+                max_num_phys_stacked = num_phys_stacked;
+        }
         platform_cpu_init();
         pm_idle = default_idle;
 }