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

[Sean Paul]

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 <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  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