From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joerg Vehlow <lkml@jv-coder.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [4.14] Failing selftest timer/adjtick
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:00:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCPZA7nkGGDru3xw@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e76744b3-342a-1f75-cba6-51fd8b01c5ce@jv-coder.de>
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 01:43:10PM +0100, Joerg Vehlow wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we found that on the selftest timer/adjtick fails on arm64 (tested on some
> renesas board and in qemu) quite frequently.
> By bisecting the kernel I found that it stopped failing after commit
> 78b98e3c5a66 (timekeeping/ntp: Determine the multiplier directly from NTP
> tick length).
> Should this patch be applied to 4.14 and is it even possible or could it
> break something else?
Have you tried applying it to that tree to see if it solves your problem
and works properly? If so, please feel free to provide a working
backported copy, with your signed-off-by and we can consider it.
But, why not just use 4.19 or newer on that system?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-10 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-10 12:43 [4.14] Failing selftest timer/adjtick Joerg Vehlow
2021-02-10 13:00 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-02-10 13:07 ` Joerg Vehlow
2021-02-10 13:19 ` Miroslav Lichvar
2021-02-10 18:59 ` Naresh Kamboju
2021-02-11 10:34 ` Joerg Vehlow
2021-02-11 10:33 ` Joerg Vehlow
2021-02-11 10:45 ` Greg KH
2021-02-11 10:59 ` Miroslav Lichvar
2021-02-18 7:05 ` Joerg Vehlow
2021-03-01 7:04 ` Joerg Vehlow
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