On Friday 08 April 2016, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> This is in preparation for the series that transitions
> filesystem timestamps to use 64 bit time and hence make
> them y2038 safe.
> 
> The function is meant to replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC macro.
> The macro CURRENT_TIME_SEC does not represent filesystem times
> correctly as it cannot perform range checks.
> current_fs_time_sec() will be extended to include these.
> 
> CURRENT_TIME_SEC is also not y2038 safe. current_fs_time_sec()
> will be transitioned to use 64 bit time along with vfs in a
> separate series.
> 
> The function is inline for now to maintain similar performance
> to that of the macro.
> 
> The function takes super block as a parameter to allow for
> future range checking of filesystem timestamps.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
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