linux-kernel - Re: Query regarding __hrtimer_get_next

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1710270931330.2694@nanos>
Date:   Fri, 27 Oct 2017 09:32:07 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>
cc:     sramana@...eaurora.org, sboyd@...eaurora.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: Query regarding __hrtimer_get_next_event()

On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, Neeraj Upadhyay wrote:

> Hi tglx,
> 
> Forgot to mention, we are using kernel stable version 3.18
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/kernel/time/timekeeping.c?h=v3.18.77
> 
> wall time is being set to a value close to epoch
> but less than epoch + current uptime.
> 
> Looks like
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/kernel/time?id=e1d7ba8735551ed79c7a0463a042353574b96da3
> 
> handles this case, but is not present in 3.18 tree.
> We will try by pulling this patch to 3.18 tree.

Sigh. This should have been tagged for stable.

Thanks,

	tglx