Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] clocksource: Make negative motion detection more robust" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 02:58:42PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12 2024 at 14:03, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> >
> > To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
> >
> > git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
> > git checkout FETCH_HEAD
> > git cherry-pick -x 76031d9536a076bf023bedbdb1b4317fc801dd67
> > # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
> > git commit -s
> > git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2024121203-griminess-blah-4e97@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' HEAD^..
> >
> > Possible dependencies:
> >
> 
> There clearly is a dependency:
> 
> > From 76031d9536a076bf023bedbdb1b4317fc801dd67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 11:16:30 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] clocksource: Make negative motion detection more robust
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Fixes: c163e40af9b2 ("timekeeping: Always check for negative motion")
> 
> This was merged in the 6.13 merge window into Linus tree and not
> backported to 6.12.y according to my clone of the stable tree.
> 
> AI went sideways?

Nope, that commit is now in all of the stable queues, which is why I
added this backport.  Or attempted to.

> But I don't think these two commits are necessarily stable material,
> though I don't have a strong opinion on it. If c163e40af9b2 is
> backported, then it has it's own large dependency chain on pre 6.10
> kernels...

It's in the queues for some reason, let me figure out why...