This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled timekeeping: Increment clock_was_set_seq in timekeeping_init() to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: timekeeping-increment-clock_was_set_seq-in-timekeeping_init.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 56fd16cabac9cd8f15e2902898a9d0cc96e2fa70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:50:22 +0200 Subject: timekeeping: Increment clock_was_set_seq in timekeeping_init() From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 56fd16cabac9cd8f15e2902898a9d0cc96e2fa70 upstream. timekeeping_init() can set the wall time offset, so we need to increment the clock_was_set_seq counter. That way hrtimers will pick up the early offset immediately. Otherwise on a machine which does not set wall time later in the boot process the hrtimer offset is stale at 0 and wall time timers are going to expire with a delay of 45 years. Fixes: 868a3e915f7f "hrtimer: Make offset update smarter" Reported-and-tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stefan Liebler <stli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c @@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@ void __init timekeeping_init(void) set_normalized_timespec64(&tmp, -boot.tv_sec, -boot.tv_nsec); tk_set_wall_to_mono(tk, tmp); - timekeeping_update(tk, TK_MIRROR); + timekeeping_update(tk, TK_MIRROR | TK_CLOCK_WAS_SET); write_seqcount_end(&tk_core.seq); raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timekeeper_lock, flags); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.2/timekeeping-increment-clock_was_set_seq-in-timekeeping_init.patch -- 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