[PATCH 0/2] afs: Migrate to 64-bit timekeeping

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Feb 11 03:26:06 PST 2015


Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina at gmail.com> wrote:

> This patchset is an attempt to port afs's timekeeping
> variables from time_t type to time64_t. AFS uses
> get_seconds to store real (wall clock) time in seconds.
> The time returned by get_seconds() will overflow on 32-bit systems
> in year 2106 and beyond.
> This patchset replaces the usage with ktime_get_real_seconds.
> Fields that propagate to the inode (mtime_client, mtime_server,
> creation) remain untouched, as the inode timestamps are only 32bit.

I've applied these to my branch.

David



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