A patch that would probably have fixed this issue on x86 systems seems to have been deferred because the current behaviour seemed to be necessary for sparc64. At least if I interpret these mails correctly:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/4/86 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/4/292
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