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| author |   Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> | 2017-06-24 11:45:02 -0700 |
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| committer |   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2017-06-25 21:58:46 -0400 |
| commit | f59dd9c886acb3abb188e8e94a99436560976835 (patch) | |
| tree | 710c0991d9c08ef76eb60632ca2730bf59d9172b /include/linux/time.h | |
| parent | posix-timers: Make nanosleep timespec argument const (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-f59dd9c886acb3abb188e8e94a99436560976835.tar.xz linux-dev-f59dd9c886acb3abb188e8e94a99436560976835.zip | |
time: add get_timespec64 and put_timespec64
Add helper functions to convert between struct timespec64 and
struct timespec at userspace boundaries.
This is a preparatory patch to use timespec64 as the basic type
internally in the kernel as timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit systems.
The patch helps the cause by containing all data conversions at the
userspace boundaries within these functions.
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/time.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/time.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/time.h b/include/linux/time.h index c0543f5f25de..36afb579495f 100644 --- a/include/linux/time.h +++ b/include/linux/time.h @@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ extern struct timezone sys_tz; +int get_timespec64(struct timespec64 *ts, + const struct timespec __user *uts); +int put_timespec64(const struct timespec64 *ts, + struct timespec __user *uts); + #define TIME_T_MAX (time_t)((1UL << ((sizeof(time_t) << 3) - 1)) - 1) static inline int timespec_equal(const struct timespec *a, |