As Helge reported for timerfd we have the same issue in posix timers. We return remaining time larger than the programmed relative time to user space in case of CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES=y. Use the proper function to adjust the extra time added in hrtimer_start_range_ns(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c @@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ common_timer_get(struct k_itimer *timr, (timr->it_sigev_notify & ~SIGEV_THREAD_ID) == SIGEV_NONE)) timr->it_overrun += (unsigned int) hrtimer_forward(timer, now, iv); - remaining = ktime_sub(hrtimer_get_expires(timer), now); + remaining = __hrtimer_expires_remaining_adjusted(timer, now); /* Return 0 only, when the timer is expired and not pending */ if (remaining.tv64 <= 0) { /*