Re: [PATCH v2 25/29] y2038: syscalls: rename y2038 compat syscalls

Catalin Marinas
2019-01-25T15:47:38Z

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 05:18:31PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A lot of system calls that pass a time_t somewhere have an implementation
> using a COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() on 64-bit architectures, and have
> been reworked so that this implementation can now be used on 32-bit
> architectures as well.
>
> The missing step is to redefine them using the regular SYSCALL_DEFINEx()
> to get them out of the compat namespace and make it possible to build them
> on 32-bit architectures.
>
> Any system call that ends in 'time' gets a '32' suffix on its name for
> that version, while the others get a '_time32' suffix, to distinguish
> them from the normal version, which takes a 64-bit time argument in the
> future.
>
> In this step, only 64-bit architectures are changed, doing this rename
> first lets us avoid touching the 32-bit architectures twice.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

For arm64:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>