linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] rds: store socket timestamps as ktime

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Message-Id: <20180831.180424.463682127429889241.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 31 Aug 2018 18:04:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     arnd@...db.de
Cc:     santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com, sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com,
        willemb@...gle.com, ka-cheong.poon@...cle.com,
        s.mesoraca16@...il.com, avinash.repaka@...cle.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rds: store socket timestamps as ktime_t

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:47:19 +0200

> rds is the last in-kernel user of the old do_gettimeofday()
> function. Convert it over to ktime_get_real() to make it
> work more like the generic socket timestamps, and to let
> us kill off do_gettimeofday().
> 
> A follow-up patch will have to change the user space interface
> to deal better with 32-bit tasks, which may use an incompatible
> layout for 'struct timespec'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Applied, thanks.