4 files changed, 7 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 8aab8517642e..4e456bd955bb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -344,31 +344,15 @@ static void __init early_cpu_detect(void)
 
 /*
  * The NOPL instruction is supposed to exist on all CPUs with
- * family >= 6, unfortunately, that's not true in practice because
+ * family >= 6; unfortunately, that's not true in practice because
  * of early VIA chips and (more importantly) broken virtualizers that
- * are not easy to detect.  Hence, probe for it based on first
- * principles.
+ * are not easy to detect.  In the latter case it doesn't even *fail*
+ * reliably, so probing for it doesn't even work.  Disable it completely
+ * unless we can find a reliable way to detect all the broken cases.
  */
 static void __cpuinit detect_nopl(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 {
-        const u32 nopl_signature = 0x888c53b1; /* Random number */
-        u32 has_nopl = nopl_signature;
-
         clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL);
-        if (c->x86 >= 6) {
-                asm volatile("\n"
-                             "1:      .byte 0x0f,0x1f,0xc0\n" /* nopl %eax */
-                             "2:\n"
-                             "        .section .fixup,\"ax\"\n"
-                             "3:      xor %0,%0\n"
-                             "        jmp 2b\n"
-                             "        .previous\n"
-                             _ASM_EXTABLE(1b,3b)
-                             : "+a" (has_nopl));
-
-                if (has_nopl == nopl_signature)
-                        set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NOPL);
-        }
 }
 
 static void __cpuinit generic_identify(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c
index f1685fb91fbd..b8e05ee4f736 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static unsigned int cpufreq_p4_get_frequency(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
         }
 
         if (c->x86 != 0xF) {
-                printk(KERN_WARNING PFX "Unknown p4-clockmod-capable CPU. Please send an e-mail to <cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk>\n");
+                printk(KERN_WARNING PFX "Unknown p4-clockmod-capable CPU. Please send an e-mail to <cpufreq@vger.kernel.org>\n");
                 return 0;
         }
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c
index 15e13c01cc36..3b5f06423e77 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 #include <asm/cpufeature.h>
 
 #define PFX             "speedstep-centrino: "
-#define MAINTAINER      "cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk"
+#define MAINTAINER      "cpufreq@vger.kernel.org"
 
 #define dprintk(msg...) \
         cpufreq_debug_printk(CPUFREQ_DEBUG_DRIVER, "speedstep-centrino", msg)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
index b117d7f8a564..885c8265e6b5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ static int __init enable_mtrr_cleanup_setup(char *str)
                 enable_mtrr_cleanup = 1;
         return 0;
 }
-early_param("enble_mtrr_cleanup", enable_mtrr_cleanup_setup);
+early_param("enable_mtrr_cleanup", enable_mtrr_cleanup_setup);
 
 struct var_mtrr_state {
         unsigned long   range_startk;