From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 00/32] making inode time stamps y2038 ready
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:37:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18158267.ZX0ZMPkVDT@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1406031427130.12421@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Tuesday 03 June 2014 14:33:10 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2014, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> > I think John Stultz and Thomas Gleixner have already started looking
> > at how the timekeeping code can be updated. Once that is done, we should
> > be able to add a functional 64-bit gettimeofday/settimeofday syscall
> > pair. While I definitely agree this is one of the most basic things to
> > have, it's also not an area of the kernel that is easy to change.
>
> 64-bit clock_gettime / clock_settime instead of gettimeofday /
> settimeofday should avoid the need for the kernel to have a 64-bit version
> of struct timeval. (Userspace 64-bit gettimeofday / settimeofday would
> need to use a combination of the syscalls if the tz pointer is non-NULL.)
Yes, that's what I meant.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-03 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-30 20:01 [RFC 00/32] making inode time stamps y2038 ready Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-30 20:01 ` [RFC 07/32] fs/nfs: convert to struct inode_time Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-31 14:30 ` [RFC 00/32] making inode time stamps y2038 ready Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2014-06-03 12:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-31 14:51 ` Richard Cochran
2014-05-31 15:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-31 16:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-05-31 18:22 ` Richard Cochran
2014-05-31 19:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-01 4:46 ` Richard Cochran
2014-06-01 4:44 ` Richard Cochran
2014-06-02 13:52 ` Joseph S. Myers
2014-06-02 19:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-02 19:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-02 19:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-02 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-03 14:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-03 14:33 ` Joseph S. Myers
2014-06-03 14:37 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-06-03 21:38 ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-04 15:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-04 17:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-06-04 19:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-05 0:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 9:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-02 21:02 ` Joseph S. Myers
2014-06-04 15:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <8618458.1EVJCoVbkH@wuerfel>
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.11.1406012121430.17310@knanqh.ubzr>
[not found] ` <4178301.j9kWdGCRLC@wuerfel>
2014-06-02 15:04 ` [RFC 11/32] xfs: convert to struct inode_time Chuck Lever
2014-06-02 15:31 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-02 17:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-02 18:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-02 22:29 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-02 22:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-02 23:32 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-06-02 23:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-03 13:09 ` Roger Willcocks
2014-06-02 18:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-02 18:58 ` Roger Willcocks
2014-06-02 19:04 ` Chuck Lever
2014-06-02 19:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
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