[RFC][PATCH] amdkfd: Convert timestamping to use 64bit time accessors

Oded Gabbay oded.gabbay at amd.com
Thu Mar 19 01:29:11 PDT 2015



On 03/13/2015 01:24 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 12 March 2015 10:23:40 John Stultz wrote:
>> Convert the timestamping in the amdkfd driver to use
>> a timespec64 and 64bit time accessors.
>>
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>> Cc: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay at amd.com>
>> Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
>> Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
>> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org>
>>
>
> The patch looks good, but I'd always include at least a one-liner
> about what it's good for. In this case, the existing code
> is completely safe beyond y2038 because you are dealing with
> monotonic time, so it's worth mentioning that we do this in
> order to kill off all uses of struct timespec.
>
> 	Arnd
>
Thanks!
Applied to my -next tree so will probably be in 4.1

	Oded


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