Merge branches 'x86/alternatives', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/commandline', 'x86/crashdump...

[cascardo/linux.git] / arch / x86 / kernel / process.c

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 876e918..ec7a2ba 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -185,7 +185,8 @@ static void mwait_idle(void)
 static void poll_idle(void)
 {
        local_irq_enable();
-       cpu_relax();
+       while (!need_resched())
+               cpu_relax();
 }
 
 /*