The patch titled random: align rekey_work's timer has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is random-align-rekey_works-timer.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: random: align rekey_work's timer From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> Align rekey_work. Even though it's infrequent, we may as well line it up. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/random.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/char/random.c~random-align-rekey_works-timer drivers/char/random.c --- a/drivers/char/random.c~random-align-rekey_works-timer +++ a/drivers/char/random.c @@ -1488,7 +1488,8 @@ static void rekey_seq_generator(struct w keyptr->count = (ip_cnt & COUNT_MASK) << HASH_BITS; smp_wmb(); ip_cnt++; - schedule_delayed_work(&rekey_work, REKEY_INTERVAL); + schedule_delayed_work(&rekey_work, + round_jiffies_relative(REKEY_INTERVAL)); } static inline struct keydata *get_keyptr(void) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from anton@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch mm-align-vmstat_works-timer.patch random-align-rekey_works-timer.patch sunrpc-align-cache_clean-works-timer.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html