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SubjectRe: [RESEND PATCH v3] rtc: cros-ec: return -ETIME when refused to set alarms in the past
On 27/02/2018 at 10:50:03 +0800, Jeffy Chen wrote:
> Since accessing a Chrome OS EC based rtc is a slow operation, there is a
> race window where if the alarm is set for the next second and the second
> ticks over right before calculating the alarm offset.
>
> In this case the current driver is setting a 0-second alarm, which would
> be considered as disabling alarms by the EC(EC_RTC_ALARM_CLEAR).
>
> This breaks, e.g., hwclock which relies on RTC_UIE_ON ->
> rtc_update_irq_enable(), which sets a 1-second alarm and expects it to
> fire an interrupt.
>
> So return -ETIME when the alarm is in the past, follow __rtc_set_alarm().
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@rock-chips.com>
> ---
>
> Changes in v3:
> Fix alarm time comparing.
>
> Changes in v2:
> Rewrite commit message as Brian suggested.
> Check alarm time only when that alarm is enabled.
>
> drivers/rtc/rtc-cros-ec.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks.

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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

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