Ah - thanks. The bug was caused by me being a bit too optimistic in 
applying the shiny-new Power7 support patches on the last day. (nice 
CPU btw.)

In that case paulus tells me it's actually Peter screwing up moving
something from the powerpc code to generic :-)

 .../...

Such bugs happen, and they are easy enough to fix. What matters 
arent the 1-2 short-lived bugs that do happen when a new combination 
of trees is created, but the long-lived combination bugs and 
conflicts.

I'm not saying -next would fix world hunger ... but in this case we have
two sets of issues, perfctr and the init ordering change which both got
merged totally bypassing -next... We should at least -try- to follow the
process we've defined, don't you think ?

Cheers,
Ben.