On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 01:43:10PM +0100, Joerg Vehlow wrote: > Hi, > > we found that on the selftest timer/adjtick fails on arm64 (tested on some > renesas board and in qemu) quite frequently. > By bisecting the kernel I found that it stopped failing after commit > 78b98e3c5a66 (timekeeping/ntp: Determine the multiplier directly from NTP > tick length). > Should this patch be applied to 4.14 and is it even possible or could it > break something else? Have you tried applying it to that tree to see if it solves your problem and works properly? If so, please feel free to provide a working backported copy, with your signed-off-by and we can consider it. But, why not just use 4.19 or newer on that system? thanks, greg k-h
