WITHDRAW: [PATCH 0/2] Potential fix for leapsecond caused futex issue

[Brad Figg]

On 07/02/2012 07:17 PM, Brad Figg wrote:
> John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org> has put together a 2 patch set to
> address the leapsecond bug that was encountered this past weekend by
> some sites.
> 
> This set has had some testing by a few people. This patch set has not
> yet been submitted upstream. John did the work to backport these
> patches for Lucid and newer kernels.
> 
> The following mailing list thread covers this patch set and the discussions
> around them:
>     https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/1/176
> 
> John Stultz (2):
>   Fix clock_was_set so it is safe to call from atomic
>   Fix leapsecond triggered hrtimer/futex load spike issue
> 
>  kernel/hrtimer.c          |   17 ++++++++++++++++-
>  kernel/time/timekeeping.c |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

The final solution is still being worked upstream.

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