linux-kernel - Re: [tip:timers/urgent] ktime: Get rid of the union

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Date:   Wed, 4 Jan 2017 10:39:19 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com,
        linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:timers/urgent] ktime: Get rid of the union

On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 09:54:12AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2017, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > > Get rid of the union and just keep ktime_t as simple typedef of type s64.
> > 
> > All good stuff. One question that remains is why keep the type while
> > removing the cycles_t type?
> 
> That would have been a massive surgery which I was not able to pull off on
> top of the other changes.

And the reason ktime needs be s64 is because 0 is at boot, and we need
to represent time before boot, right? Might want to stick that in a
comment somewhere near that typedef, so I don't keep asking this ;-)