we issue broadcast, the IPI is also delivered to offline cpus, or partially up cpu causing stale IPI's to be handled, which is a problem and can cause undesirable effects. Introduces a new startup cmdline option no_ipi_broadcast, that can be switched at cmdline if necessary. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj Acked-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds °ð6»‘ux