linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] afs: Migrate to 64-bit timekeeping

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Date:	Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:26:06 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@...il.com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] afs: Migrate to 64-bit timekeeping

Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@...il.com> wrote:

> This patchset is an attempt to port afs's timekeeping
> variables from time_t type to time64_t. AFS uses
> get_seconds to store real (wall clock) time in seconds.
> The time returned by get_seconds() will overflow on 32-bit systems
> in year 2106 and beyond.
> This patchset replaces the usage with ktime_get_real_seconds.
> Fields that propagate to the inode (mtime_client, mtime_server,
> creation) remain untouched, as the inode timestamps are only 32bit.

I've applied these to my branch.

David
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