On Tue, 3 Jan 2017, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 05:26:33AM -0800, tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Commit-ID: 64dac5c9e0f5a933e4520f0cb689b7b143925207 > > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/64dac5c9e0f5a933e4520f0cb689b7b143925207 > > Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > AuthorDate: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 11:38:40 +0100 > > Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > CommitDate: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 13:11:50 +0100 > > > > ktime: Get rid of the union > > > > ktime is a union because the initial implementation stored the time in > > scalar nanoseconds on 64 bit machine and in a endianess optimized timespec > > variant for 32bit machines. The Y2038 cleanup removed the timespec variant > > and switched everything to scalar nanoseconds. The union remained, but > > become completely pointless. > > > > Get rid of the union and just keep ktime_t as simple typedef of type s64. > > All good stuff. One question that remains is why keep the type while > removing the cycles_t type? That would have been a massive surgery which I was not able to pull off on top of the other changes. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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