From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43228 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751496AbcI0SDj (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:03:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 20:03:43 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Marc Zyngier Cc: christoffer.dall@linaro.org, nbd@nbd.name, tglx@linutronix.de, tn@semihalf.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "hrtimer: Add support for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree Message-ID: <20160927180343.GA24916@kroah.com> References: <1474986477241162@kroah.com> <20160927171212.2e75bb99@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160927171212.2e75bb99@arm.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 05:12:12PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: > Greg, > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:27:57 +0200 > wrote: > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > hrtimer: Add support for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW > > > > to the 4.4-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: > > hrtimer-add-support-for-clock_monotonic_raw.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let know about it. > > > > > > From 9c808765e88efb6fa6af7e2206ef89512f1840a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Marc Zyngier > > Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:41:08 +0000 > > Subject: hrtimer: Add support for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW > > > > From: Marc Zyngier > > > > commit 9c808765e88efb6fa6af7e2206ef89512f1840a7 upstream. > > > > The KVM/ARM timer implementation arms a hrtimer when a vcpu is > > blocked (usually because it is waiting for an interrupt) > > while its timer is going to kick in the future. > > > > It is essential that this timer doesn't get adjusted, or the > > guest will end up being woken-up at the wrong time (NTP running > > on the host seems to confuse the hell out of some guests). > > > > In order to allow this, let's add CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW support > > to hrtimer (it is so far only supported for posix timers). It also > > has the (limited) benefit of fixing de0421d53bfb ("mac80211_hwsim: > > shuffle code to prepare for dynamic radios"), which already uses > > this functionnality without realizing wasn't implemented (just being > > lucky...). > > > > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier > > Cc: Tomasz Nowicki > > Cc: Christoffer Dall > > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452879670-16133-2-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner > > Cc: Felix Fietkau > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > Please drop that patch. It is utterly broken, and was reverted in > mainline with commit 82e88ff1ea94 ("hrtimer: Revert CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW > support"). > Ok, will do. Felix, this kind of means this isn't the fix you were looking for, any other ideas? thanks, greg k-h