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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] spufs: use timespec64 for timestamps
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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From: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
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Hi Arnd,

> The switch log prints the tv_sec portion of timespec as a 32-bit
> number, while overflows in 2106. It also uses the timespec type,
> which is safe on 64-bit architectures, but deprecated because
> it causes overflows in 2038 elsewhere.
> 
> This changes it to timespec64 and printing a 64-bit number for
> consistency.

If we still have spufs in the tree in 2038 I'd be worried :) But good
to keep things consistent.

Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>

Michael: want to take this directly through your tree?

Cheers,


Jeremy