Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair Francis <> | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:56:12 +1000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] perf bench futex: Use a 64-bit time_t |
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 10:01 AM André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com> wrote: > > Às 20:17 de 19/10/21, Alistair Francis escreveu: > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 2:56 AM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo > > <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Em Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 10:56:33AM +1000, Alistair Francis escreveu: > >>> From: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com> > >>> > >>> Convert tools/perf to only use a 64-bit time_t. On 64-bit architectures > >>> this isn't a functional change. On 32-bit architectures we now only > >>> perform 64-bit time_t syscalls (__NR_futex_time64) and use a struct > >>> timespec64. > >>> > >>> This won't work on kernels before 5.1, but as perf is tied to the kernel > >>> that's ok. > >> > >> No, perf is not tied to the kernel, one can use a new perf tool on any > >> previous kernel, and an old perf tool should work on new kernels as > >> well. > > > > + André, I won't be doing this the way you requested > > > > Ok, thanks anyway for your work and sorry for the trouble :)
No worries!
Alistair
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