* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

quoted text
> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 18:49 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 09:42 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Linus,
> > > 
> > > Please pull the latest timers-fixes-for-linus git tree from:
> > > 
> > >    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git timers-fixes-for-linus
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > 	Ingo
> > > 
> > > ------------------>
> > > Marc Dionne (1):
> > >       x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online, fix
> > 
> > Is that all the changeset comment ? Am I the only one to find that
> > totally useless ? Or is that the mail doesn't contain the actual
> > comment, only the title followed by the patch ?
> 
> Allright, so in fact, it's more like the log doesn't match
> the patch in the email..

only because i already picked up a different submission at that time, 
and posted in this thread.

i picked up this one from lkml:

  Subject: [PATCH] Fix build error introduced by commit 4faac97d44ac27bdbb010a9c3597401a8f89341f

see the full commit log below, it has all the details.

	Ingo

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From 1eda81495a49a4ee91d8863b0a441a624375efea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:40:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online, fix

Fix build error introduced by commit 4faac97d44ac27 ("x86: prevent stale
state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online").

process_32.c needs to include idle.h to get the prototype for
c1e_remove_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
index 4b3cfdf..31f40b2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/cpu.h>
 #include <asm/kdebug.h>
+#include <asm/idle.h>
 
 asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void) __asm__("ret_from_fork");
 
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