May be it will result in a triple fault and an eventual hardware reset thus masking this BUG in the kernel. This fix just makes sure that we reset that status flag after initialization is done. Fix paranoia about using BIOS quickboot mechanism. Make sure that we clear the "shutdown status flag" in the CMOS register after each CPU is brought up. This fixes a problem where the "shutdown status flag" may remain set when a CPU is brought up after booting. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria Signed-off-by: Dan Arai Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Ú3õ