linux-kernel - Re: PROBLEM: skew message does not handle negative ns skew

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Date:   Tue, 6 Jun 2023 14:09:08 +0100
From:   Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@...il.com>
To:     Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
Cc:     paulmck@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, sboyd@...nel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: skew message does not handle negative ns skew

On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 at 13:50, Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com> wrote:
>
> And I'm have no idea if there is a real hardware/firmware issue
> or just a false alarm.

Is a negative reported skew valid? I don't know, I had assumed so, so
the problem was the conversion from -878159 ns to 18446744073708 ms.