Jason Xing wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 5:56 AM Willem de Bruijn
> <willemdebruijn.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
> > > On 10/11/24 9:06 PM, Jason Xing wrote:
> > > > static int sol_socket_sockopt(struct sock *sk, int optname,
> > > > char *optval, int *optlen,
> > > > bool getopt)
> > > > {
> > > > + struct so_timestamping ts;
> > > > + int ret = 0;
> > > > +
> > > > switch (optname) {
> > > > case SO_REUSEADDR:
> > > > case SO_SNDBUF:
> > > > @@ -5225,6 +5245,13 @@ static int sol_socket_sockopt(struct sock *sk, int optname,
> > > > break;
> > > > case SO_BINDTODEVICE:
> > > > break;
> > > > + case SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW:
> > > > + case SO_TIMESTAMPING_OLD:
> > >
> > > How about remove the "_OLD" support ?
> >
> > +1 I forgot to mention that yesterday.
>
> Hello Willem, Martin,
>
> I did a test on this and found that if we only use
> SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW, we will never enter the real set sk_tsflags_bpf
> logic, unless there is "case SO_TIMESTAMPING_OLD".
>
> And I checked SO_TIMESTAMPING in include/uapi/asm-generic/socket.h:
> #if __BITS_PER_LONG == 64 || (defined(__x86_64__) && defined(__ILP32__))
> /* on 64-bit and x32, avoid the ?: operator */
> ...
> #define SO_TIMESTAMPING SO_TIMESTAMPING_OLD
> ...
> #else
> ...
> #define SO_TIMESTAMPING (sizeof(time_t) == sizeof(__kernel_long_t) ?
> SO_TIMESTAMPING_OLD : SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW)
> ...
> #endif
>
> The SO_TIMESTAMPING is defined as SO_TIMESTAMPING_OLD. I wonder if I
> missed something? Thanks in advance.
The _NEW vs _OLD aim to deal with y2038 issues on 32-bit platforms.
For new APIs, like BPF timestamping, we should always use the safe
structs, such as timespec64.
Then we can just use SO_TIMESTAMPING without the NEW or OLD suffix.
