From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753988Ab1IMDoN (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:44:13 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:41772 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753824Ab1IMDoM (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:44:12 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/24] C6X: time management From: john stultz To: Mark Salter Cc: linux-kernel , "H. Peter Anvin" In-Reply-To: <1315883885.11280.34.camel@deneb.redhat.com> References: <1314826019-22330-1-git-send-email-msalter@redhat.com> <1314826019-22330-11-git-send-email-msalter@redhat.com> <1315883885.11280.34.camel@deneb.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:44:02 -0700 Message-ID: <1315885442.3180.86.camel@work-vm> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-cbid: 11091303-2398-0000-0000-0000002BF149 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 23:18 -0400, Mark Salter wrote: > On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 18:16 -0700, john stultz wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Mark Salter wrote: > > > The C6X architecture includes a 64-bit free running core clock counter which > > > is used as the clocksource. The SoCs have a number of 64-bit programmable > > > timers. One of these is used as the clockevent timer. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Mark Salter > > > > Sort of a tangent to this specific patch, but since it came up > > recently in the x32 discussion, I wanted to check if you were using a > > 64bit definition of time_t? > > C6X uses the asm-generic definition which is a long, so 32-bits. You might want to seriously consider following the x32 folks and use 64 bits, as 2038 isn't very far away. thanks -john