linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH lttng-modules] Fix: bump stable kernel version ranges for clock work-around

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Date:   Thu, 13 Oct 2016 17:00:36 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lttng-dev@...ts.lttng.org,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH lttng-modules] Fix: bump stable kernel version ranges for
 clock work-around

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 03:56:55PM +0200, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Linux commit 27727df240c7 ("Avoid taking lock in NMI path with
> CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING"), changed the logic to open-code
> the timekeeping_get_ns() function, but forgot to include
> the unit conversion from cycles to nanoseconds, breaking the
> function's output, which impacts LTTng.
> 
> We expected Linux commit 58bfea9532 "timekeeping: Fix
> __ktime_get_fast_ns() regression" to make its way into stable
> kernels promptly, but it appears new stable kernel releases were
> done before the fix was cherry-picked from the master branch.

Sorry, will go queue that up now...

greg k-h