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 20:53:00 +0200
From:	Sander Eikelenboom <linux@...elenboom.it>
To:	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
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


Friday, August 12, 2016, 7:29:37 PM, you wrote:

> 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/ ?


Ah yes that solves it (i only looked in your git-tree to see if there was a 
patch already), sorry for the noise !

--

Sander