linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:43:16 -0700
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>
Cc:     John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ben Fennema <fennema@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:42:46PM -0700, Greg Hackmann wrote:
> Commit ff86bf0c65f1 ("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals") sets a
> minimum bound on the alarm timer interval.  This minimum bound shouldn't
> be applied if the interval is 0.  Otherwise, one-shot timers will be
> converted into periodic ones.
> 
> This patch is specific to 4.11.y and 4.12.y.  Older -stable trees have a
> slightly different patch, and 4.13-rc2 isn't impacted due to a later
> refactoring.
> 
> Fixes: ff86bf0c65f1 ("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals")
> Reported-by: Ben Fennema <fennema@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks, now queued up.

greg k-h