Re: [PATCH 0/5 v2] Fixes for leapsecond expiring early ABS_TIME CLOCK_REALTIME timers

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Jun 13 2015 - 03:18:22 EST



* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Jun 2015, John Stultz wrote:
> > Well, noticing the -tip merge messages in my inbox, it may actually
> > make it for 4.2 (after all the push-back from last time, I expected
> > there would still be more), but still not something I'm wanting to
> > aggressively push to -stable.
>
> Yes, I decided to take it now. It looks really sane and reasonable
> simple. So it's better to get it exposed sooner than later.

Yes, and June 30 is drawing close, with the next leap second, giving us a natural
testbed.

Obviously no production system should use this as around June 30 we'll be around
-rc1 or so. But this way it should see some 'real world' testing.

Thanks,

Ingo
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