On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:12:47PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

Okay. I'll resurrect the fix with a hotplug_cpu__tick_pull() name - 
agreed?

Sure.

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Also, I improved the changelog (attached below), but decided 
against applying it until these questions are cleared - please use 
that for future versions of this patch.

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Fixes: http://linuxppc.10917.n7.nabble.com/offlining-cpus-breakage-td88619.html

You forgot to fix the Fixes line ;-)

My copy has:

 Fixes: 5d1638acb9f6 ("tick: Introduce hrtimer based broadcast")

Hm, not sure how that got lost - my git-log of the patch ported on top 
of timers/core still has it:

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Preeti U. Murthy <redacted>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Fixes: http://linuxppc.10917.n7.nabble.com/offlining-cpus-breakage-td88619.html
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150330092410.24979.59887.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com
[ Merged it to the latest timer tree, tidied up the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

That doesn't have my Sob in it, so you took it from the list yourself,
not from my queue. I also (concurrently it seems) fixed up the Changelog
some :-)