netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/4] net: ipv4: tcp_probe: Replace timespec with timespec64

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Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:01:13 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] net: ipv4: tcp_probe: Replace timespec with timespec64

On Wednesday 24 February 2016 23:07:10 Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> TCP probe log timestamps use struct timespec which is
> not y2038 safe. Even though timespec might be good enough here
> as it is used to represent delta time, the plan is to get rid
> of all uses of timespec in the kernel.
> Replace with struct timespec64 which is y2038 safe.
> 
> Prints still use unsigned long format and type.
> This is because long is 64 bit on 64 bit systems and 32 bit on
> 32 bit systems. Hence, time64_t(64 bit signed number) does not
> have a specifier that matches on both architectures.

Actually time64_t is always 'long long', but tv_sec is time_t 
(long) instead of time64_t on 64-bit architectures.

Using a %ll format string and a cast to s64 would work as well,
but as you say above, it's not important here.

> Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>