Re: [tip: timers/urgent] clockevents: Add missing resets of the next_event_forced flag

From: Greg KH

Date: Tue Apr 21 2026 - 02:43:10 EST


On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 08:26:35AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 4/21/26 08:18, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 19 2026 at 17:11, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> >> On 4/16/26 21:26, tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >>> The following commit has been merged into the timers/urgent branch of tip:
> >>>
> >>> Commit-ID: 4096fd0e8eaea13ebe5206700b33f49635ae18e5
> >>> Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/4096fd0e8eaea13ebe5206700b33f49635ae18e5
> >>> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> AuthorDate: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:55:01 +02:00
> >>> Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> CommitterDate: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:22:04 +02:00
> >>>
> >>> clockevents: Add missing resets of the next_event_forced flag
> >>
> >> Just wondering: what's the plan to mainline this? I wonder if this is
> >> worth mainlining rather quickly and the tell the stable team right
> >> afterwards to queue it up for 7.0.1, as in addition to the two affected
> >> people in this thread (one of which stated that "several users from
> >> CachyOS reported this regression as well") I noticed three more 7.0 bug
> >> reports in the past few days that likely are fixed by the quoted patch:
> >
> > It's in Linus tree and I asked the stable folks to withhold the original
> > patch which it fixes, so they can queue both at once.
>
> Yeah, I noticed, and many thx! Also many thx for planning the backport,
> this is great. But that "original patch" is already in 7.0, which makes
> me wonder:
>
> Should we ask Greg (now CCed) to include a backport (once it exists) for
> 7.0.1, even if that is in testing already and might mean that this needs
> another stable-rc or delayed? Because in addition to those three reports
> I mentioned earlier I noticed one more today:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221377
>
> And maybe this is the same issue, too:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221388
>
> IOW: quite a few people are hitting this.

I've already dropped this from all of the other stable queues. If you
want me to pick up something from linux-next now, for 7.0.1, I'll be
glad to do so, just let me know.

thanks,

greg k-h