Every time I have to stare at this function I need to completely
reverse engineer its workings, about time I write a comment
explaining the thing.

Collected bits and pieces from previous changelogs, mostly:

  4be9daaa
  83378269Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318518057.27731.2.camel@twinsSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>