On 14/4/21 1:31 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 04/20/2014 10:23 PM, Ley Foon Tan wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Friday 18 April 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>>> Did the generic headers ever get updated to match Linus' guidance that >>>> any new architecture ports should use a 64-bit time_t? >>> >>> No, unfortunately not. With my rule that every architecture that gets >>> added needs to clean up asm-generic some more, to make it easier to add >>> the next one, we should probably do for nios2. >>> >>> Arnd >> >> Can you give me the documentation on this new guidance and point me >> any architecture have implemented this? >> Thanks. >> > > We implemented it in the x32 ABI for x86. In generic code this is keyed > by COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME, but in your case it isn't actually a matter of > compat, so it should be easier. > > See this thread including the discussion about time_t: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/26/415 > > -hpa I'm not sure why we need CONFIG_USE_64BIT_TIME? We don't have any 32-on-64 problems. My understanding of what Arnd meant, was to clean up asm-generic/posix_types.h such that for example, time_t should be defined as a 'long long' type, which should be 64-bit almost everywhere. At least AFAIK, that should work for all current asm-generic users. Thanks, Chung-Lin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
