Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers

From	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers
Date	2017-07-25 23:50 +0200
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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 <fennema@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks, now queued up.

greg k-h

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[PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com> - 2017-07-24 19:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2017-07-24 20:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com> - 2017-07-24 23:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2017-07-25 00:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-07-25 09:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2017-07-25 20:10 +0200
            [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com> - 2017-07-25 21:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2017-07-25 23:50 +0200

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