x86: disable preemption in delay_tsc()
Marin Mitov points out that delay_tsc() can misbehave if it is preempted and
rescheduled on a different CPU which has a skewed TSC. Fix it by disabling
preemption.
(I assume that the worst-case behaviour here is a stall of 2^32 cycles)
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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