Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] scsi: 3ware: fix 32-bit time calculations | From | "Martin K. Petersen" <> | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:06:04 -0500 |
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Arnd,
> twl_aen_queue_event/twa_aen_queue_event, we use do_gettimeofday() > to read the lower 32 bits of the current time in seconds, to pass > them to the TW_IOCTL_GET_NEXT_EVENT ioctl or the 3ware_aen_read > sysfs file. > > This will overflow on all architectures in year 2106, there is > not much we can do about that without breaking the ABI. User > space has 90 years to learn to deal with it, so it's probably ok. > > I'm changing it to use ktime_get_real_seconds() with a comment > to document what happens when.
Applied to 4.16/scsi-queue.
-- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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