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Re: [PATCH] cpuset: Replace all instances of time_t with time64_t

From Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] cpuset: Replace all instances of time_t with time64_t
Date 2015-11-26 13:20 +0100
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On 2015/11/26 3:01, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 04:16:55PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> The following patch replaces all instances of time_t with time64_t i.e.
>> change the type used for representing time from 32-bit to 64-bit. All
>> 32-bit kernels to date use a signed 32-bit time_t type, which can only
>> represent time until January 2038. Since embedded systems running 32-bit
>> Linux are going to survive beyond that date, we have to change all
>> current uses, in a backwards compatible way.
>>
>> The patch also changes the function get_seconds() that returns a 32-bit
>> integer to ktime_get_seconds() that returns seconds as 64-bit integer.
>>
>> The patch changes the type of ticks from time_t to u32. We keep ticks as
>> 32-bits as the function uses 32-bit arithmetic which would prove less
>> expensive than 64-bit arithmetic and the function is expected to be
>> called atleast once every 32 seconds.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Heena Sirwani <heenasirwani@gmail.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> Applied to cgroup/for-4.5.
>

Acked

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[PATCH] cpuset: Replace all instances of time_t with time64_t Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-25 16:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] cpuset: Replace all instances of time_t with time64_t Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-11-25 18:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] cpuset: Replace all instances of time_t with time64_t Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-11-25 20:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] cpuset: Replace all instances of time_t with time64_t Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> - 2015-11-26 13:20 +0100

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