some comments to clarify some of the confusions. - I have taken Jens's patch and modified it a bit. - Compile tested with gcc 4.4 and boot tested. I don't have gcc 4.5 running, Andi can you please test it with gcc 4.5 to make sure it worked. Reported-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Acked-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe “æêT™'x