2018-06-18 15:41:09

by Arnd Bergmann

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Subject: [PATCH] drm/msm: avoid using 'timespec'

The timespec structure and associated interfaces are deprecated and will
be removed in the future because of the y2038 overflow.

The use of ktime_to_timespec() in timeout_to_jiffies() does not
suffer from that overflow, but is easy to avoid by just converting
the ktime_t into jiffies directly.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h
index b2da1fbf81e0..cc8977476a41 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h
@@ -353,8 +353,7 @@ static inline unsigned long timeout_to_jiffies(const ktime_t *timeout)
remaining_jiffies = 0;
} else {
ktime_t rem = ktime_sub(*timeout, now);
- struct timespec ts = ktime_to_timespec(rem);
- remaining_jiffies = timespec_to_jiffies(&ts);
+ remaining_jiffies = ktime_divns(rem, NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ);
}

return remaining_jiffies;
--
2.9.0



2018-07-10 21:20:14

by Sean Paul

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/msm: avoid using 'timespec'

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 05:39:42PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The timespec structure and associated interfaces are deprecated and will
> be removed in the future because of the y2038 overflow.
>
> The use of ktime_to_timespec() in timeout_to_jiffies() does not
> suffer from that overflow, but is easy to avoid by just converting
> the ktime_t into jiffies directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h
> index b2da1fbf81e0..cc8977476a41 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h
> @@ -353,8 +353,7 @@ static inline unsigned long timeout_to_jiffies(const ktime_t *timeout)
> remaining_jiffies = 0;
> } else {
> ktime_t rem = ktime_sub(*timeout, now);
> - struct timespec ts = ktime_to_timespec(rem);
> - remaining_jiffies = timespec_to_jiffies(&ts);
> + remaining_jiffies = ktime_divns(rem, NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ);

Do you need to wrap rem in ktime_to_ns() just to be safe?

Sean

> }
>
> return remaining_jiffies;
> --
> 2.9.0
>

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Sean Paul, Software Engineer, Google / Chromium OS

2018-07-10 21:28:36

by Arnd Bergmann

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/msm: avoid using 'timespec'

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:47 PM, Sean Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 05:39:42PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> The timespec structure and associated interfaces are deprecated and will
>> be removed in the future because of the y2038 overflow.
>>
>> The use of ktime_to_timespec() in timeout_to_jiffies() does not
>> suffer from that overflow, but is easy to avoid by just converting
>> the ktime_t into jiffies directly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h | 3 +--
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h
>> index b2da1fbf81e0..cc8977476a41 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h
>> @@ -353,8 +353,7 @@ static inline unsigned long timeout_to_jiffies(const ktime_t *timeout)
>> remaining_jiffies = 0;
>> } else {
>> ktime_t rem = ktime_sub(*timeout, now);
>> - struct timespec ts = ktime_to_timespec(rem);
>> - remaining_jiffies = timespec_to_jiffies(&ts);
>> + remaining_jiffies = ktime_divns(rem, NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ);
>
> Do you need to wrap rem in ktime_to_ns() just to be safe?

The ktime_t interfaces are still defined to use an opaque type,
as previously it was a union that could be a seconds/nanoseconds
pair depending on the architecture. These days, ktime_t is just
a 64-bit integer, so div_u64() would work just as well as ktime_divns(),
but this is the documented way to do it.

Arnd

2018-07-11 14:02:12

by Sean Paul

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/msm: avoid using 'timespec'

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:27:00PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:47 PM, Sean Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 05:39:42PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> The timespec structure and associated interfaces are deprecated and will
> >> be removed in the future because of the y2038 overflow.
> >>
> >> The use of ktime_to_timespec() in timeout_to_jiffies() does not
> >> suffer from that overflow, but is easy to avoid by just converting
> >> the ktime_t into jiffies directly.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h | 3 +--
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h
> >> index b2da1fbf81e0..cc8977476a41 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h
> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h
> >> @@ -353,8 +353,7 @@ static inline unsigned long timeout_to_jiffies(const ktime_t *timeout)
> >> remaining_jiffies = 0;
> >> } else {
> >> ktime_t rem = ktime_sub(*timeout, now);
> >> - struct timespec ts = ktime_to_timespec(rem);
> >> - remaining_jiffies = timespec_to_jiffies(&ts);
> >> + remaining_jiffies = ktime_divns(rem, NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ);
> >
> > Do you need to wrap rem in ktime_to_ns() just to be safe?
>
> The ktime_t interfaces are still defined to use an opaque type,
> as previously it was a union that could be a seconds/nanoseconds
> pair depending on the architecture. These days, ktime_t is just
> a 64-bit integer, so div_u64() would work just as well as ktime_divns(),
> but this is the documented way to do it.

Hey Arnd,
Ahh, ok, I think I realize my confusion now. If ktime_t was not ns,
ktime_divns() would do the conversion for us. Since it is ns, the conversion
is a no-op (which is why I didn't see ktime_to_ns() in ktime_divns()).

Thanks for breaking that down for me,

Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <[email protected]>


>
> Arnd

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