linux-kernel - Re: [Y2038] [PATCH v4 02/10] include: Move compat_timespec/ timeval to compat

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Date:   Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:51:31 -0700
From:   Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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Subject: Re: [Y2038] [PATCH v4 02/10] include: Move compat_timespec/ timeval
 to compat_time.h

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 1:52 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 4:50 AM, Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com> wrote:
>> The file arch/arm64/kernel/process.c needs asm/compat.h also to be
>> included directly since this is included conditionally from
>> include/compat.h. This does seem to be typical of arm64 as I was not
>> completely able to get rid of asm/compat.h includes for arm64 in this
>> series. My plan is to have separate patches to get rid of asm/compat.h
>> includes for the architectures that are not straight forward to keep
>> this series simple.
>> I will fix this and update the series.
>>
>
> I ran across the same thing in two more files during randconfig testing on
> arm64 now, adding this fixup on top for the moment, but maybe there
> is a better way:

I was looking at how Al tested his uaccess patches:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg108752.html

He seems to be running the kbuild bot tests on his own git.
Is it possible to verify it this way on the 2038 tree? Or, I could
host a tree also.

Thanks,
Deepa