On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 2015, Nuno Gonçalves wrote: > >> There is a regression on the clock system since v3.16-rc5-111-g4396e05 >> [1], > >> [1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4396e058c52e167729729cf64ea3dfa229637086 > > That commit has absolutely nothing to do with NTP. I fear your bisect > went down the wrong road somewhere. > >> where the clock doesn't apply frequency offsets above about >> 1000ppm [2]. > > This looks pretty familiar. > > The issue was introduced with commit 5e5aeb4367b (time: adjtimex: > Validate the ADJ_FREQUENCY values). That patch was tagged for stable, > so it got backported. > > The fix is in commit 29183a70b0b82 (ntp: Fixup adjtimex freq > validation on 32-bit systems). That commit was tagged for stable as > well, but with the extra '#3.19+' limitation. > > So in the worst case 5e5aeb4367b hit a stable tree < 3.19, but > 29183a70b0b82 did not. Hrm. So that would be problematic, and I'll have to follow up that both changes got backported together. But I don't think that's the issue here, since the problem supposedly continues w/ 4.2... thanks -john -- 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