On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 04:16:55PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The following patch replaces all instances of time_t with time64_t i.e. > change the type used for representing time from 32-bit to 64-bit. All > 32-bit kernels to date use a signed 32-bit time_t type, which can only > represent time until January 2038. Since embedded systems running 32-bit > Linux are going to survive beyond that date, we have to change all > current uses, in a backwards compatible way. > > The patch also changes the function get_seconds() that returns a 32-bit > integer to ktime_get_seconds() that returns seconds as 64-bit integer. > > The patch changes the type of ticks from time_t to u32. We keep ticks as > 32-bits as the function uses 32-bit arithmetic which would prove less > expensive than 64-bit arithmetic and the function is expected to be > called atleast once every 32 seconds. > > Signed-off-by: Heena Sirwani <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Applied to cgroup/for-4.5. Thanks. -- tejun _______________________________________________ Y2038 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/y2038
