linux-kernel - Re: 915f3e3f76 ("mac80211_hwsim: Replace bogus hrtimer clockid"): BUG: kernel reboot-without-warning in test stage

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Date:   Tue, 5 Sep 2017 09:12:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     kernel test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
cc:     LKP <lkp@...org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        wfg@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: 915f3e3f76 ("mac80211_hwsim: Replace bogus hrtimer clockid"):
 BUG: kernel reboot-without-warning in test stage

On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, kernel test robot wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> 0day kernel testing robot got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> 
> commit 915f3e3f76c05b2da93c4cc278eebc2d9219d9f4
> Author:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> AuthorDate: Sat Feb 25 11:27:37 2017 +0100
> Commit:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> CommitDate: Sat Feb 25 09:48:16 2017 -0800
> 
>     mac80211_hwsim: Replace bogus hrtimer clockid
>     
>     mac80211_hwsim initializes a hrtimer with clockid CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW.
>     That's not supported.
>     
>     Use CLOCK_MONOTNIC instead.

Sorry, no. That bisect is completely bogus. The commit in question merily
replaces the unsupported clockid with a valid one.

Thanks,

	tglx