Hi,

On 20/09/2017 at 11:22:31 +0800, Xu Yiping wrote:
> From: Xu YiPing  <[email protected]>
> 
> After commit 2b2f5ff00f63 ("rtc: interface: ignore expired timers when
> enqueuing new timers"), the rtc_timer_enqueue will not reprogram the RTC
> when there is any non-expired timers in the timerqueue. If we set a
> RTC_TIMER between now and the next non-expired timers, it won't go into
> effect in time.
> 
> So, besides ignoring the expired timers, we should take the next effect
> timer into account, and reprogram the RTC timer appropriately.
> 

Can you try this patch instead? I think it solves this issue:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/792482/

> Signed-off-by: Xu YiPing <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Jun <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/interface.c | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/interface.c b/drivers/rtc/interface.c
> index 8cec9a0..e237166 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/interface.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/interface.c
> @@ -766,20 +766,23 @@ static int rtc_timer_enqueue(struct rtc_device *rtc, 
> struct rtc_timer *timer)
>       struct timerqueue_node *next = timerqueue_getnext(&rtc->timerqueue);
>       struct rtc_time tm;
>       ktime_t now;
> +     ktime_t next_effect = KTIME_MAX;
> 
>       timer->enabled = 1;
>       __rtc_read_time(rtc, &tm);
>       now = rtc_tm_to_ktime(tm);
> 
> -     /* Skip over expired timers */
> +     /* Skip over expired timers, get next effect timer */
>       while (next) {
> -             if (next->expires >= now)
> +             if (next->expires >= now) {
> +                     next_effect = next->expires;
>                       break;
> +             }
>               next = timerqueue_iterate_next(next);
>       }
> 
>       timerqueue_add(&rtc->timerqueue, &timer->node);
> -     if (!next) {
> +     if (timer->node.expires < next_effect) {
>               struct rtc_wkalrm alarm;
>               int err;
>               alarm.time = rtc_ktime_to_tm(timer->node.expires);
> --
> 2.7.4
> 

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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