From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Y2038] [PATCH v2] xen/pcifront: Remove usage of struct timeval
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 14:21:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3083587.uSon9UE2TV@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150519060809.GA27777@tinar>
On Tuesday 19 May 2015 11:38:09 Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> struct timeval uses a 32-bit field for representing seconds,
> which will overflow in the year 2038 and beyond. This patch replaces
> struct timeval with 64-bit ktime_t which is 2038 safe.
> The patch is part of a larger effort to remove instances of
> 32-bit timekeeping variables (timeval, time_t and timespec)
> from the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-20 12:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-19 6:08 [PATCH v2] xen/pcifront: Remove usage of struct timeval Tina Ruchandani
2015-05-19 14:14 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-05-20 12:21 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2015-05-20 13:16 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-06-05 19:07 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-06-08 10:18 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
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