[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "KVM: s390: base hrtimer on a monotonic clock" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    KVM: s390: base hrtimer on a monotonic clock

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt18.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 69fc9cbbdf8f64e589b838e51a3d54ac67ef38a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Hildenbrand <dahi at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:17:31 +0100
Subject: KVM: s390: base hrtimer on a monotonic clock

commit 0ac96caf0f9381088c673a16d910b1d329670edf upstream.

The hrtimer that handles the wait with enabled timer interrupts
should not be disturbed by changes of the host time.

This patch changes our hrtimer to be based on a monotonic clock.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
index 2480d92..1e201ad 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_setup(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	vcpu->arch.sie_block->ecb2  = 8;
 	vcpu->arch.sie_block->eca   = 0xC1002001U;
 	vcpu->arch.sie_block->fac   = (int) (long) vfacilities;
-	hrtimer_init(&vcpu->arch.ckc_timer, CLOCK_REALTIME, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
+	hrtimer_init(&vcpu->arch.ckc_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
 	tasklet_init(&vcpu->arch.tasklet, kvm_s390_tasklet,
 		     (unsigned long) vcpu);
 	vcpu->arch.ckc_timer.function = kvm_s390_idle_wakeup;
--
1.9.1