This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ACPI processor: Fix tick_broadcast_mask online/offline regression

to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     acpi-processor-fix-tick_broadcast_mask-online-offline-regression.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From b7db60f45d74497c723dc7ae1370cf0b37dfb0d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Feng Tang <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:44:43 +0800
Subject: ACPI processor: Fix tick_broadcast_mask online/offline regression

From: Feng Tang <[email protected]>

commit b7db60f45d74497c723dc7ae1370cf0b37dfb0d8 upstream.

In commit 99b725084 "ACPI processor hotplug: Delay acpi_processor_start()
call for hotplugged cores", acpi_processor_hotplug(pr) was wrongly replaced
by acpi_processor_cst_has_changed() inside the acpi_cpu_soft_notify(). This
patch will restore it back, fixing the tick_broadcast_mask regression:
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/30/169

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Deepthi Dharwar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ static int acpi_cpu_soft_notify(struct n
                /* Normal CPU soft online event */
                } else {
                        acpi_processor_ppc_has_changed(pr, 0);
-                       acpi_processor_cst_has_changed(pr);
+                       acpi_processor_hotplug(pr);
                        acpi_processor_reevaluate_tstate(pr, action);
                        acpi_processor_tstate_has_changed(pr);
                }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.4/acpi-processor-fix-tick_broadcast_mask-online-offline-regression.patch
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