linux-kernel - Re: [GIT pull] leap second fixes for 3.5

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Date:	Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:21:43 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT pull] leap second fixes for 3.5

On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> Linus,
> 
> please pull the latest timers-urgent-for-linus git tree from:
> 
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers-urgent-for-linus
> 
> It's a rather large series, but well discussed, refined and
> reviewed. It got a massive testing by John, Prarit and tip.
> 
> In theory we could split it into two parts. The first two patches
> 
>   5baefd6: hrtimer: Update hrtimer base offsets each hrtimer_interrupt
>   f6c06ab: timekeeping: Provide hrtimer update function
> 
> are merily preventing the stuff loops forever issues, which people
> have observed.

I'm a moron. Copied from teh wrong direction. That should be:

  f55a6fa: hrtimer: Provide clock_was_set_delayed()
  4873fa0: timekeeping: Fix leapsecond triggered load spike issue

That are the two commits which do the basic damage containment.

Gah, I explicitely asked some involved person to look over that mail
before I sent it. :(
 
Grumbling out of a brown paperbag

	  tglx
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