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SubjectRe: [03/67] rtc: Expire alarms after the time is set.
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On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 14:29 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

This one is having problems upstream. Please hold off on it.

thanks
-john


> ------------------
>
> From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
>
> commit 93b2ec0128c431148b216b8f7337c1a52131ef03 upstream.
>
> If the alarm time programming in the rtc is ever in the past, it won't fire,
> and any other alarm will be queued after it so they won't fire either.
>
> So any time that the alarm might be in the past, we need to trigger
> the irq handler to ensure the old alarm is cleared and the timer queue
> is fully in the future.
>
> This can happen:
> - when we first initialise the alarm
> - when we set the time in the rtc.
>
> so follow both of these by scheduling the timer work function.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
> [Also catch set_mmss case -jstultz]
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> ---
> drivers/rtc/interface.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> --- a/drivers/rtc/interface.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/interface.c
> @@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ int rtc_set_time(struct rtc_device *rtc,
> err = -EINVAL;
>
> mutex_unlock(&rtc->ops_lock);
> + /* A timer might have just expired */
> + schedule_work(&rtc->irqwork);
> return err;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtc_set_time);
> @@ -111,6 +113,8 @@ int rtc_set_mmss(struct rtc_device *rtc,
> err = -EINVAL;
>
> mutex_unlock(&rtc->ops_lock);
> + /* A timer might have just expired */
> + schedule_work(&rtc->irqwork);
>
> return err;
> }
> @@ -402,6 +406,8 @@ int rtc_initialize_alarm(struct rtc_devi
> timerqueue_add(&rtc->timerqueue, &rtc->aie_timer.node);
> }
> mutex_unlock(&rtc->ops_lock);
> + /* maybe that was in the past.*/
> + schedule_work(&rtc->irqwork);
> return err;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtc_initialize_alarm);
>
>




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