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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21 known regressions (v2) (for -stable team)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:58:53 +0200
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On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 18:27 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of known regressions reported after 2.6.21 release.

Michal, thanks for stepping up !

> Subject    : 2.6.21 - BUG: at arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:177 send_IPI_mask_bitmask()
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/27/621
> Submitter  : Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
> Status     : unknown

Len,

clockevents_notify() is called with the power verify information for an
offline CPU. I can handle this in the clockevents code, but I think acpi
is the correct place.

Thanks,

	tglx