Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Date | Tue, 16 Jan 2018 20:58:44 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] spufs: use timespec64 for timestamps |
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:07 PM, Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> wrote: > Hi Arnd, > >> The switch log prints the tv_sec portion of timespec as a 32-bit >> number, while overflows in 2106. It also uses the timespec type, >> which is safe on 64-bit architectures, but deprecated because >> it causes overflows in 2038 elsewhere. >> >> This changes it to timespec64 and printing a 64-bit number for >> consistency. > > If we still have spufs in the tree in 2038 I'd be worried :)
Agreed. My hope is to get rid of 'timespec' in 2018 though, this is just one of many parts of the puzzle.
Arnd
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