> 2) arch/i386/kernel/head.S enables the 4 MB page tables twice:
>
> around line 65, the secondary cpu loads the cr4 value from the primary
> cpu, and around line 220 it unconditionally enables 4 MB page tables.
>
> AFAICS, the second asm block is completely superflous.
thats my bad and probably leaked in with the highmem patches. Probably
this would have never gotten noticed unless someone runs an SMP/486 box.
Ingo
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