kvm does not support setting the RTC, so the correct result is -ENODEV. Returning -1 will cause sync_cmos_clock to keep trying to set the RTC every second. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c index d88967659098b5..5b609e28ce3f40 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static void kvm_get_wallclock(struct timespec *now) static int kvm_set_wallclock(const struct timespec *now) { - return -1; + return -ENODEV; } static u64 kvm_clock_read(void) -- 2.7.4