On 06/09/2016 05:10 PM, Deepa Dinamani wrote: >>> boot_time is represented as a struct timespec. >>> struct timespec and CURRENT_TIME are not y2038 safe. >>> Overall, the plan is to use timespec64 for all internal >>> kernel representation of timestamps. >>> CURRENT_TIME will also be removed. >>> Use struct timespec64 to represent boot_time. >>> And, ktime_get_real_ts64() for the boot_time value. >>> >>> boot_time is used to construct the nfs client boot verifier. >>> This will now wrap in 2106 instead of 2038 on 32-bit systems. >>> The server only relies on the value being persistent until >>> reboot so the wrapping should be fine. >> >> We really do not give a damn about wraparound here, since the boot time is >> only ever compared for an exact match, and the odds of two reboots occurring >> exactly 2^32 * 10^9 nanoseconds apart are cosmically small... >> If struct timespec is going away, can we just convert this into a ktime_t? > > timespec64 is the same as timespec already on 64 bit machines. > But, yes, we can use ktime_t here. > > Did you mean the internal storage value or the wire boo_time used for verifier? > In case you don't want to change the wire value, then we will have a division > operation, every time the verifier needs to be sent. The verifier is mostly used during mounting, so we don't send too many of them. I don't think we need to worry about adding an extra division operation here, they're pretty cheap compared to making RPC calls! :) Anna > > -Deepa > > -Deepa > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
