From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: [RFC 13/32] ext3: convert to struct inode_time Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 22:01:37 +0200 Message-ID: <1401480116-1973111-14-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> References: <1401480116-1973111-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, joseph@codesourcery.com, john.stultz@linaro.org, hch@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, geert@linux-m68k.org, lftan@altera.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Jan Kara , Andrew Morton , Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1401480116-1973111-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org ext3fs uses unsigned 32-bit seconds for inode timestamps, which will work for the next 92 years, but the VFS uses struct timespec for timestamps, which is only good until 2038 on 32-bit CPUs. This gets us one small step closer to lifting the VFS limit by using struct inode_time in ext3. The on-disk format limit is lifted in ext4, which will work until 2514. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org --- fs/ext3/inode.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c index 4d32133..8b76f80 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c @@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ static int ext3_splice_branch(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, struct ext3_block_alloc_info *block_i; ext3_fsblk_t current_block; struct ext3_inode_info *ei = EXT3_I(inode); - struct timespec now; + struct inode_time now; block_i = ei->i_block_alloc_info; /* @@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ static int ext3_splice_branch(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, /* We are done with atomic stuff, now do the rest of housekeeping */ now = CURRENT_TIME_SEC; - if (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_ctime, &now) || !where->bh) { + if (!inode_time_equal(&inode->i_ctime, &now) || !where->bh) { inode->i_ctime = now; ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode); } -- 1.8.3.2