diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c
index adc66c3a1fef..34b18594e724 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_uv_x.c
@@ -207,7 +207,6 @@ static int __cpuinit uv_wakeup_secondary(int phys_apicid, unsigned long start_ri
 	    ((start_rip << UVH_IPI_INT_VECTOR_SHFT) >> 12) |
 	    APIC_DM_INIT;
 	uv_write_global_mmr64(pnode, UVH_IPI_INT, val);
-	mdelay(10);
 
 	val = (1UL << UVH_IPI_INT_SEND_SHFT) |
 	    (phys_apicid << UVH_IPI_INT_APIC_ID_SHFT) |
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc.c b/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc.c
index 8b9940e78e2f..7cce722667b8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc.c
@@ -161,13 +161,13 @@ restart:
 	if (inbuf && inlen) {
 		/* write data to EC */
 		for (i = 0; i < inlen; i++) {
+			pr_devel("olpc-ec:  sending cmd arg 0x%x\n", inbuf[i]);
+			outb(inbuf[i], 0x68);
 			if (wait_on_ibf(0x6c, 0)) {
 				printk(KERN_ERR "olpc-ec:  timeout waiting for"
 						" EC accept data!\n");
 				goto err;
 			}
-			pr_devel("olpc-ec:  sending cmd arg 0x%x\n", inbuf[i]);
-			outb(inbuf[i], 0x68);
 		}
 	}
 	if (outbuf && outlen) {
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sysenter.S b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sysenter.S
index e2800affa754..e354bceee0e0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sysenter.S
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sysenter.S
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ __kernel_vsyscall:
 	.space 7,0x90
 
 	/* 14: System call restart point is here! (SYSENTER_RETURN-2) */
-	jmp .Lenter_kernel
+	int $0x80
 	/* 16: System call normal return point is here! */
 VDSO32_SYSENTER_RETURN:	/* Symbol used by sysenter.c via vdso32-syms.h */
 	pop %ebp