From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933045AbXD2IXU (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:23:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933090AbXD2IXT (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:23:19 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:36217 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933045AbXD2IXO (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:23:14 -0400 Subject: Re: send_IPI_mask_bitmask() (Re: 2.6.21 known regressions (v2) (for -stable team)) From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Len Brown Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, Michal Piotrowski , stable@kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Chua In-Reply-To: <200704290134.39048.lenb@kernel.org> References: <463375E5.5040108@googlemail.com> <1177779533.7646.264.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200704290134.39048.lenb@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:25:22 +0200 Message-Id: <1177835122.5791.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 01:34 -0400, Len Brown wrote: > > 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. > > So the CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=y case is broken, > but the CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=n below is okay? > Not immediately clear why both cases can't fail. True, that's strange. Even more strange is that 2.6.21-rc7 does not have the problem, but 2.6.21 has. We did not change anything in those code pathes between rc7 and final. Jeff, can you please verify which -rcX was the last which did not have this problem. Thanks, tglx