linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc: eeh: stop using do

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Message-ID: <1509939132.2606.0.camel@russell.cc>
Date:   Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:32:12 +1100
From:   Russell Currey <ruscur@...sell.cc>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     y2038@...ts.linaro.org, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>,
        Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: eeh: stop using do_gettimeofday()

On Sat, 2017-11-04 at 22:26 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This interface is inefficient and deprecated because of the y2038
> overflow.
> 
> ktime_get_seconds() is an appropriate replacement here, since it
> has sufficient granularity but is more efficient and uses monotonic
> time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Acked-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@...sell.cc>