3.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b4f711ee03d28f776fd2324fd0bd999cc428e4d2 upstream. Kay Sievers noted that the ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK config, which enables some minor compile time optimization to avoid uncessary code in mostly the suspend/resume path could cause problems for userland. In particular, the dependency for RTC_HCTOSYS on !ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK, which avoids setting the time twice and simplifies suspend/resume, has the side effect of causing the /sys/class/rtc/rtcN/hctosys flag to always be zero, and this flag is commonly used by udev to setup the /dev/rtc symlink to /dev/rtcN, which can cause pain for older applications. While the udev rules could use some work to be less fragile, breaking userland should strongly be avoided. Additionally the compile time optimizations are fairly minor, and the code being optimized is likely to be reworked in the future, so lets revert this change. Reported-by: Kay Sievers <kay@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366828376-18124-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 - drivers/rtc/Kconfig | 2 -- include/linux/time.h | 4 ---- kernel/time/Kconfig | 5 ----- 4 files changed, 12 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ config X86 select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if X86_64 || (X86_32 && X86_LOCAL_APIC) select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL if X86_64 select KTIME_SCALAR if X86_32 - select ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING if X86_64 --- a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ if RTC_CLASS config RTC_HCTOSYS bool "Set system time from RTC on startup and resume" default y - depends on !ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK help If you say yes here, the system time (wall clock) will be set using the value read from a specified RTC device. This is useful to avoid @@ -29,7 +28,6 @@ config RTC_HCTOSYS config RTC_SYSTOHC bool "Set the RTC time based on NTP synchronization" default y - depends on !ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK help If you say yes here, the system time (wall clock) will be stored in the RTC specified by RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE approximately every 11 --- a/include/linux/time.h +++ b/include/linux/time.h @@ -117,14 +117,10 @@ static inline bool timespec_valid_strict extern bool persistent_clock_exist; -#ifdef ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK -#define has_persistent_clock() true -#else static inline bool has_persistent_clock(void) { return persistent_clock_exist; } -#endif extern void read_persistent_clock(struct timespec *ts); extern void read_boot_clock(struct timespec *ts); --- a/kernel/time/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig @@ -12,11 +12,6 @@ config CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG config ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA bool -# Platforms has a persistent clock -config ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK - bool - default n - # Timekeeping vsyscall support config GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL bool -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html