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Message-ID: <CAMz4kuKPH5Byv0bsdO_Jg-FhZNH6qMgixzM4Q988KnbQrF3qeQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:08:23 +0800
From:   Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...aro.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] m68k: Remove read_persistent_clock()

On 20 April 2018 at 23:22, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 8:22 AM, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...aro.org> wrote:
>> The read_persistent_clock() uses a timespec, which is not year 2038 safe
>> on 32bit systems. Moreover on m68k architecture, we have implemented generic
>> RTC drivers that can be used to compensate the system suspend time. So
>> we can remove the obsolete read_persistent_clock().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...aro.org>
>
> I'm not sure about this one: it's still possible to turn off
> CONFIG_RTC_DRV_GENERIC
> on M68KCLASSIC, and in that case we still need a read_persistent_clock64()
> implementation. Or we use your patch but make CONFIG_RTC_DRV_GENERIC
> mandatory.

OK. Thanks for fixing the issue with your patch.

>
> See below for a version I did a while ago (but never submitted as I got
> distracted).
>
>        Arnd
>
> commit 13ddf5a33a195e9b7a7a6ed10481363b5259c1d4
> Author: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Date:   Thu Jan 25 15:30:50 2018 +0100
>
>     m68k: use read_persistent_clock64 consistently
>
>     We have two ways of getting the current time from a platform at boot
>     or during suspend: either using read_persistent_clock() or the rtc
>     class operation. We never need both, so I'm hiding the
>     read_persistent_clock variant when the generic RTC is enabled.
>
>     Since read_persistent_clock() and mktime() are deprecated because of
>     the y2038 overflow of time_t, we should use the time64_t based
>     replacements here.
>
>     Finally, the dependency on CONFIG_ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET looks
>     completely bogus in this case, so let's remove that. It was
>     added in commit b13b3f51ff7b ("m68k: fix inclusion of
>     arch_gettimeoffset for non-MMU 68k classic CPU types") to deal
>     with arch_gettimeoffset(), which has since been removed from
>     this file and is unrelated to the RTC functions.
>
>     The rtc accessors are only used by classic machines, while
>     coldfire uses proper RTC drivers, so we can put the old
>     ifdef back around both functions.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>
> diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/time.c b/arch/m68k/kernel/time.c
> index 97dd4e26f234..edcf3855d8b0 100644
> --- a/arch/m68k/kernel/time.c
> +++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/time.c
> @@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ static irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dummy)
>         return IRQ_HANDLED;
>  }
>
> -void read_persistent_clock(struct timespec *ts)
> +#ifdef CONFIG_M68KCLASSIC
> +#if !IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_RTC_DRV_GENERIC)
> +void read_persistent_clock64(struct timespec64 *ts)
>  {
>         struct rtc_time time;
>         ts->tv_sec = 0;
> @@ -82,12 +84,13 @@ void read_persistent_clock(struct timespec *ts)
>
>                 if ((time.tm_year += 1900) < 1970)
>                         time.tm_year += 100;
> -               ts->tv_sec = mktime(time.tm_year, time.tm_mon, time.tm_mday,
> +               ts->tv_sec = mktime64(time.tm_year, time.tm_mon, time.tm_mday,
>                                       time.tm_hour, time.tm_min, time.tm_sec);
>         }
>  }
> +#endif
>
> -#if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET) &&
> IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RTC_DRV_GENERIC)
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RTC_DRV_GENERIC)
>  static int rtc_generic_get_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
>  {
>         mach_hwclk(0, tm);
> @@ -145,8 +148,8 @@ static int __init rtc_init(void)
>  }
>
>  module_init(rtc_init);
> -
> -#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET */
> +#endif /* CONFIG_RTC_DRV_GENERIC */
> +#endif /* CONFIG M68KCLASSIC */
>
>  void __init time_init(void)
>  {



-- 
Baolin.wang
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