Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the tip-fixes tree

[Thomas Weißschuh]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 03:50:44PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 01:44:08PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > After merging the tip-fixes tree, today's linux-next build (arm64 kunit)
> > failed like this:
> 
> > [12:39:34] [FAILED] <missing>
> > [12:39:34] Testing complete. Ran 0 tests: errors: 1
> > [12:39:34] Test results stored in /tmp/next/arm64_kunit.json
> > [12:39:34] Elapsed time: 316.083s total, 0.002s configuring, 16.074s building, 300.006s running
> 
> > which isn't super helpful.  I haven't isolated which commit but it'll be
> > one of the three:
> > 
> >   b81207470caf ("clockevents: Prevent timer interrupt starvation")

Should be fixed by:

--- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ int clockevents_program_event(struct clock_event_device *dev, ktime_t expires, b
        if (dev->next_event_forced)
                return 0;
 
-       if (dev->set_next_event(dev->min_delta_ticks, dev)) {
+       if (dev->set_next_event(dev->min_delta_ns, dev)) {
                if (!force || clockevents_program_min_delta(dev))
                        return -ETIME;
        }


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Thomas