Ingo Molnar wrote:
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>> It probably should actually HLT, to avoid sucking power, and stressing 
>> the thermal system.  We're dead at this point, and the early 486's 
>> which had problems with HLT will lock up - we don't care.
> 
> ok. Like the patch below?
> 

Don't need the cli; we're already running with interrupts disabled.

I'd do:

	while (1)
		asm volatile("hlt");

... mostly on general principles.

	-hpa