From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: year 2038 problem on x86-64
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:51:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y8j19aty.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2HnWp-3b7-25@gated-at.bofh.it> (Pavel Machek's message of "Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:40:09 +0200")
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> writes:
> Hi!
>
>> >
>> > ... __ARCH_WANT_SYS_TIME actually is set on x86-64.
>>
>> But it's not used. It declares an own sys_time64 in arch/x86_64
>> By default the vsyscall code is used.
>
> So should __ARCH_WANT_SYS_TIME be killed from x86_64?
No. The 32bit emulation uses it.
In theory you could make it conditional on CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION,
but that would be probably overkill.
-Andi
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2004-09-22 22:27 ` year 2038 problem on x86-64 Andi Kleen
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2004-09-22 21:30 year 9223372034708485227 problem Pavel Machek
2004-09-22 21:45 ` year 2038 problem on x86-64 Pavel Machek
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