s a real reason to maintain status quo. Please refer https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/27/130 for more details. A similar change was suggested in ARM: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/25/231 My 32-bit machine works fine (tm) with this patch. Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111025141812.GA21225@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Ĥz——;x