linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] spufs: use timespec64 for timestamps

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Date:   Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:07:24 -0600
From:   Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] spufs: use timespec64 for timestamps

Hi Arnd,

> The switch log prints the tv_sec portion of timespec as a 32-bit
> number, while overflows in 2106. It also uses the timespec type,
> which is safe on 64-bit architectures, but deprecated because
> it causes overflows in 2038 elsewhere.
> 
> This changes it to timespec64 and printing a 64-bit number for
> consistency.

If we still have spufs in the tree in 2038 I'd be worried :) But good
to keep things consistent.

Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>

Michael: want to take this directly through your tree?

Cheers,


Jeremy