linux-kernel - Re: [Linux 4.8-rc1 Bisected] Clock on boot Xen HVM guest starts at 31/12/1999

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Date:	Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:29:37 +0200
From:	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Sander Eikelenboom <linux@...elenboom.it>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>, jgross@...e.com
Subject: Re: [Linux 4.8-rc1 Bisected] Clock on  boot Xen HVM guest starts at
 31/12/1999

Hi,

On 12/08/2016 at 19:23:36 +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote :
> L.S.,
> 
> I'm seeing an issue when using a Linux 4.8-rc1 kernel in a Xen HVM guest (PV 
> guests and dom0 are uneffected). The clock is always set to 31/12/1999 on boot 
> of the guest, instead of the system clock time.
> 
> Bisecting seems to point out commit:
> 463a86304cae92e10277b47180ac59cf93982e5b char/genrtc: x86: remove remnants of asm/rtc.h
> 

Isn't that solved by http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/657465/ ?

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com