From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@broadcom.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] scsi: 3ware: use 64-bit times for FW time sync
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:06:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1shd8misz.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171110155840.1941250-2-arnd@arndb.de> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Fri, 10 Nov 2017 16:58:26 +0100")
Arnd,
> The calculation of the number of seconds since Sunday 00:00:00
> overflows in 2106, meaning that we instead will return the seconds
> since Wednesday 06:28:16 afterwards.
>
> Using 64-bit time stamps avoids this slight inconsistency, and the
> deprecated do_gettimeofday(), replacing it with the simpler
> ktime_get_real_seconds().
Applied to 4.16/scsi-queue.
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-21 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-10 15:58 [PATCH 1/3] scsi: 3ware: fix 32-bit time calculations Arnd Bergmann
2017-11-10 15:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] scsi: 3ware: use 64-bit times for FW time sync Arnd Bergmann
2017-11-10 19:43 ` adam radford
2017-11-21 3:06 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2017-11-10 15:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] scsi: 3w-9xxx: rework lock timeouts Arnd Bergmann
2017-11-10 19:36 ` adam radford
2017-11-21 3:07 ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-11-10 19:42 ` [PATCH 1/3] scsi: 3ware: fix 32-bit time calculations adam radford
2017-11-21 3:06 ` Martin K. Petersen
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