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We exchange file timestamps with user space using psdev device
read/write operations with a fixed but architecture specific binary
layout.
On 32-bit systems, this uses a 'timespec' structure that is defined by
the C library to contain two 32-bit values for seconds and nanoseconds.
As we get ready for the year 2038 overflow of the 32-bit signed seconds,
the kernel now uses 64-bit timestamps internally, and user space will do
the same change by changing the 'timespec' definition in the future.
Unfortunately, this breaks the layout of the coda_vattr structure, so we
need to redefine that in terms of something that does not change. I'm
introducing a new 'struct vtimespec' structure here that keeps the
existing layout, and the same change has to be done in the coda user
space copy of linux/coda.h before anyone can use that on a 32-bit
architecture with 64-bit time_t.
An open question is what should happen to actual times past y2038, as
they are now truncated to the last valid date when sent to user space,
and interpreted as pre-1970 times when a timestamp with the MSB set is
read back into the kernel. Alternatively, we could change the new
timespec64_to_coda()/coda_to_timespec64() functions to use a different
interpretation and extend the available range further to the future by
disallowing past timestamps. This would require more changes in the
user space side though.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/562b7324149461743e4fbe2fedbf7c242f7e274a.1558117389.git.jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10474735/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Acked-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>
Cc: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Cc: Zhouyang Jia <jiazhouyang09@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jan Harkes
Arnd Bergmann
Linus Torvalds