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Message-ID: <5694616.oYyysJP9uD@wuerfel>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:47:56 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tytso@....edu,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/24] fs: ubifs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time

On Sunday, June 19, 2016 5:27:06 PM CEST Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> @@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ static int create_default_filesystem(struct ubifs_info *c)
>         int min_leb_cnt = UBIFS_MIN_LEB_CNT;
>         long long tmp64, main_bytes;
>         __le64 tmp_le64;
> +       __le32 tmp_le32;
> +       struct timespec ts;
>  
>         /* Some functions called from here depend on the @c->key_len filed */
>         c->key_len = UBIFS_SK_LEN;
> @@ -297,13 +299,17 @@ static int create_default_filesystem(struct ubifs_info *c)
>         ino->ch.node_type = UBIFS_INO_NODE;
>         ino->creat_sqnum = cpu_to_le64(++c->max_sqnum);
>         ino->nlink = cpu_to_le32(2);
> -       tmp_le64 = cpu_to_le64(CURRENT_TIME_SEC.tv_sec);
> +
> +       ktime_get_real_ts(&ts);
> +       ts = timespec_trunc(ts, DEFAULT_TIME_GRAN);
> +       tmp_le64 = cpu_to_le64(ts.tv_sec);
>         ino->atime_sec   = tmp_le64;
>         ino->ctime_sec   = tmp_le64;
>         ino->mtime_sec   = tmp_le64;
> -       ino->atime_nsec  = 0;
> -       ino->ctime_nsec  = 0;
> -       ino->mtime_nsec  = 0;
> +       tmp_le32 = cpu_to_le32(ts.tv_nsec);
> +       ino->atime_nsec  = tmp_le32;
> +       ino->ctime_nsec  = tmp_le32;
> +       ino->mtime_nsec  = tmp_le32;

This part of the patch seems independent of the rest, as you don't actually
use current_time() here, or assign the timespec to an inode.

I'd suggest either leaving this part out of the patch series for now,
or making it a separate patch that uses timespec64 directly.

	Arnd