From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ben Fennema <fennema@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 11:21:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170724182122.GA6539@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170724171924.27898-1-ghackmann@google.com>
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 10:19:24AM -0700, Greg Hackmann wrote:
> Commit ff86bf0c65f1 ("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals") sets a
> minimum bound on the alarm timer interval. This minimum bound shouldn't
> be applied if the interval is 0. Otherwise, one-shot timers will be
> converted into periodic ones.
>
> This patch is against 4.9.39, and is only needed in -stable trees.
> 4.13-rc2 isn't impacted due to a later refactoring.
What refactoring patch fixed this up?
> Fixes: ff86bf0c65f1 ("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals")
As this was a 4.12 patch, 4.12-stable needs this fix as well, right?
Also, was there some test-case that you caught this with that perhaps
could be added to LTP or kselftests?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-24 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-24 17:19 [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers Greg Hackmann
2017-07-24 18:21 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-07-24 21:41 ` Greg Hackmann
2017-07-24 21:55 ` Greg KH
2017-07-25 7:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-07-25 18:01 ` Greg KH
2017-07-25 19:42 ` Greg Hackmann
2017-07-25 21:43 ` Patch "alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree gregkh
2017-07-25 21:43 ` [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers Greg KH
2017-07-25 18:05 ` Patch "alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree gregkh
2017-07-25 18:05 ` Patch "alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree gregkh
2017-07-25 18:05 ` Patch "alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree gregkh
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