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SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 8/8] powerpc/vdso: Provide __kernel_clock_gettime64() on vdso32
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Le 28/04/2020 à 18:05, Arnd Bergmann a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 3:16 PM Christophe Leroy
> <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Provides __kernel_clock_gettime64() on vdso32. This is the
>> 64 bits version of __kernel_clock_gettime() which is
>> y2038 compliant.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
>
> Looks good to me
>
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> There was a bug on ARM for the corresponding function, so far it is unclear
> if this was a problem related to particular hardware, the 32-bit kernel code,
> or the common implementation of clock_gettime64 in the vdso library,
> see https://github.com/richfelker/musl-cross-make/issues/96
>
> Just to be sure that powerpc is not affected by the same issue, can you
> confirm that repeatedly calling clock_gettime64 on powerpc32, alternating
> between vdso and syscall, results in monotically increasing times?
>

I think that's one of the things vdsotest checks, so yes that's ok I think.

Christophe

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