linux-kernel - Re: [net] devlink: Add method for time-stamp on reporter's dump

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Message-ID: <20190822140635.GH13020@lunn.ch>
Date:   Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:06:35 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Aya Levin <ayal@...lanox.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net] devlink: Add method for time-stamp on reporter's dump

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 11:17:51AM +0300, Aya Levin wrote:
> When setting the dump's time-stamp, use ktime_get_real in addition to
> jiffies. This simplifies the user space implementation and bypasses
> some inconsistent behavior with translating jiffies to current time.

Hi Aya

Is this year 2038 safe? I don't know enough about this to answer the
question myself.

Thanks
	Andrew