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

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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@xxxxxxxx>

For arm64:

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



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