[Y2038] [PATCH v2 07/24] fs: ubifs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday, June 24, 2016 2:05:11 PM CEST Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> > This part of the patch seems independent of the rest, as you don't actually
> > use current_time() here, or assign the timespec to an inode.
> >
> > I'd suggest either leaving this part out of the patch series for now,
> > or making it a separate patch that uses timespec64 directly.
> 
> This is actually the root inode which is created and written to disk.
> We actually want to use current_time() here, but this is not cached.
> So we don't have a vfs inode.
> 
> struct ubifs_ino_node represents inode format on the disk.
> I thought it would be odd to fill this with timespec64 only here.
> My plan was to switch it over to timespec64 when all of ubifs changes
> to use timespec64.

It is a bit odd, but I can't think of why that would be a problem.
All the other instances have to wait until the inode timestamps
are converted but this one does not.

> This also was helping the current series as it let me delete
> CURRENT_TIME macros.
> I can add a comment to suggest this in code.
> 
> But, what you suggest should also work fine since the on disk
> representation is big enough to use timespec64 already.
> Let me know if you want me to drop this change for now as we delete
> CURRENT_TIME macros after rc1 now.

I'd leave it in.

	Arnd