linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] amdkfd: Convert timestamping to use 64bit time accessors

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Message-ID: <550A88D7.8050804@amd.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:29:11 +0200
From:	Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@....com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
CC:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	<dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] amdkfd: Convert timestamping to use 64bit time accessors



On 03/13/2015 01:24 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 12 March 2015 10:23:40 John Stultz wrote:
>> Convert the timestamping in the amdkfd driver to use
>> a timespec64 and 64bit time accessors.
>>
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>> Cc: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@....com>
>> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
>> Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
>> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
>>
>
> The patch looks good, but I'd always include at least a one-liner
> about what it's good for. In this case, the existing code
> is completely safe beyond y2038 because you are dealing with
> monotonic time, so it's worth mentioning that we do this in
> order to kill off all uses of struct timespec.
>
> 	Arnd
>
Thanks!
Applied to my -next tree so will probably be in 4.1

	Oded
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