linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3][RFC] Fix for leapsecond caused futex issue (v4)

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Message-ID: <4FF3E178.7000806@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:23:52 -0700
From:	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
To:	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux@...nhuawei.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3][RFC] Fix for leapsecond caused futex issue (v4)

On 07/03/2012 11:21 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> Ok, made a few tweaks to address issues caught by Prarit's and my
> testing. This has run for a number of hours now w/ my leap-a-day.c
> test on a few machines.
>
> I'd really appreciate any extra testing, review, or acks at this point.
> I'm targeting mid-late Thursday (to give folks in the US a chance to
> review & test) as a point when I'll submit this upstream if no other
> issues are found.

And again, here's my leap-a-day.c test case which can be used to trigger 
a leapsecond every day, or every ~13 seconds via the -s option.

thanks
-john


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