Linus,

please pull the latest timers-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git 
timers-urgent-for-linus

A single fix for a long standing issue in the alarm timer subsystem,
which was noticed recently when people finally started to use alarm
timers for serious work.

Thanks,

        tglx

------------------>
John Stultz (1):
      alarmtimer: Fix bug where relative alarm timers were treated as absolute


 kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
index 88c9c65..fe75444 100644
--- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
@@ -585,9 +585,14 @@ static int alarm_timer_set(struct k_itimer *timr, int 
flags,
                                struct itimerspec *new_setting,
                                struct itimerspec *old_setting)
 {
+       ktime_t exp;
+
        if (!rtcdev)
                return -ENOTSUPP;
 
+       if (flags & ~TIMER_ABSTIME)
+               return -EINVAL;
+
        if (old_setting)
                alarm_timer_get(timr, old_setting);
 
@@ -597,8 +602,16 @@ static int alarm_timer_set(struct k_itimer *timr, int 
flags,
 
        /* start the timer */
        timr->it.alarm.interval = timespec_to_ktime(new_setting->it_interval);
-       alarm_start(&timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer,
-                       timespec_to_ktime(new_setting->it_value));
+       exp = timespec_to_ktime(new_setting->it_value);
+       /* Convert (if necessary) to absolute time */
+       if (flags != TIMER_ABSTIME) {
+               ktime_t now;
+
+               now = alarm_bases[timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer.type].gettime();
+               exp = ktime_add(now, exp);
+       }
+
+       alarm_start(&timr->it.alarm.alarmtimer, exp);
        return 0;
 }
 
@@ -730,6 +743,9 @@ static int alarm_timer_nsleep(const clockid_t which_clock, 
int flags,
        if (!alarmtimer_get_rtcdev())
                return -ENOTSUPP;
 
+       if (flags & ~TIMER_ABSTIME)
+               return -EINVAL;
+
        if (!capable(CAP_WAKE_ALARM))
                return -EPERM;
 
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