Re: futex timeout not working? (bisected)

[Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 02:45:37PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The only point I found which does not update the sequence count is
> timekeeping_init().
> 
> Does the patch below fix your issue?
> 

Yes, it does. Thanks for looking into this and fixing it!


> 8<--------------------
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
> index 3739ac6aa473..44d2cc0436f4 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
> @@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ void __init timekeeping_init(void)
>  	set_normalized_timespec64(&tmp, -boot.tv_sec, -boot.tv_nsec);
>  	tk_set_wall_to_mono(tk, tmp);
> 
> -	timekeeping_update(tk, TK_MIRROR);
> +	timekeeping_update(tk, TK_MIRROR | TK_CLOCK_WAS_SET);
> 
>  	write_seqcount_end(&tk_core.seq);
>  	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timekeeper_lock, flags);
>