This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5e: Fix wrong delay calculation for overflow check scheduling to the 4.9-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: net-mlx5e-fix-wrong-delay-calculation-for-overflow-check-scheduling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Aug 8 16:27:53 PDT 2017 From: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:27:18 +0300 Subject: net/mlx5e: Fix wrong delay calculation for overflow check scheduling From: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d439c84509a510e864fdc6166c760482cd03fc57 ] The overflow_period is calculated in seconds. In order to use it for delayed work scheduling translation to jiffies is needed. Fixes: ef9814deafd0 ('net/mlx5e: Add HW timestamping (TS) support') Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_clock.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_clock.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_clock.c @@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ static void mlx5e_timestamp_overflow(str write_lock_irqsave(&tstamp->lock, flags); timecounter_read(&tstamp->clock); write_unlock_irqrestore(&tstamp->lock, flags); - schedule_delayed_work(&tstamp->overflow_work, tstamp->overflow_period); + schedule_delayed_work(&tstamp->overflow_work, + msecs_to_jiffies(tstamp->overflow_period * 1000)); } int mlx5e_hwstamp_set(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from eugenia@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-schedule-overflow-check-work-to-mlx5e-workqueue.patch queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-fix-wrong-delay-calculation-for-overflow-check-scheduling.patch