Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751459AbdGYVnZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:43:25 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:33597 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750867AbdGYVnY (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:43:24 -0400 X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: BIiqPh4pqlQOWJH9Emma83ncFT9LQQYaCgKCBtzE6ZOs 1501019003 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:43:16 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Greg Hackmann Cc: John Stultz , Thomas Gleixner , Ben Fennema , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers Message-ID: <20170725214316.GA18132@kroah.com> References: <20170725180148.GA24730@kroah.com> <20170725194246.78059-1-ghackmann@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170725194246.78059-1-ghackmann@google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 21 On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:42:46PM -0700, Greg Hackmann wrote: > Commit ff86bf0c65f1 ("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals") sets a > minimum bound on the alarm timer interval. This minimum bound shouldn't > be applied if the interval is 0. Otherwise, one-shot timers will be > converted into periodic ones. > > This patch is specific to 4.11.y and 4.12.y. Older -stable trees have a > slightly different patch, and 4.13-rc2 isn't impacted due to a later > refactoring. > > Fixes: ff86bf0c65f1 ("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals") > Reported-by: Ben Fennema > Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > --- > kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Thanks, now queued up. greg k-h