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Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] Potential fix for leapsecond caused futex issue (v2)

From:  John Stultz <johnstul-AT-us.ibm.com>
To:  Linux Kernel <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>
Subject:  Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] Potential fix for leapsecond caused futex issue (v2)
Date:  Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:12:59 -0700
Message-ID:  <4FF11FCB.4030207@us.ibm.com>
Cc:  Prarit Bhargava <prarit-AT-redhat.com>, stable-AT-vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx-AT-linutronix.de>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

On 07/01/2012 11:29 AM, John Stultz wrote:
> TODOs:
> * Chase down the futex/hrtimer interaction to see if this could
> be triggered in any other way.
> * Get Tglx's input/ack
> * Generate a backport for pre-v3.4 kernels
So while still waiting for feedback on the clock_was_set() change, I 
went ahead and generated backports for most of the stable kernels on 
kernel.org.

Clearly these shouldn't go anywhere until the fix is upstream, but since 
I assume there's a number of distro developers who are likely under 
pressure to have a fix soon, I wanted to make them available so no one 
is duplicating work.

You can find them here:
http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/jstultz/linux.git;a...

I did boot and test each of those kernels with my leaptest-timer.c test 
successfully.

thanks
-john


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