On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 09:10:53PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Tuesday 24 November 2015 14:36:46 Theodore Ts'o wrote:

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This is the patch I would prefer to use (and in fact which I have
added to the ext4 tree):

There are issues with 32-bit vs 64-bit encoding of times before
January 1, 1970, which are handled with this patch which is not
handled with what you have in your patch series.  So I'd prefer if you
drop this patch, and I'll get this sent to Linus as a bug fix for 4.4.

I'm happy with either one. Apparently both Davids have arrived with
almost the same algorithm and implementation, with the exception of
the pre-1970 handling you mention there.

I was doing some testing on x86, which leads me to ask --- what's the
current thinking about post y2038 on 32-bit platforms such as x86?  I
see that there was some talk about using struct timespec64, but we
haven't made the transition in the VFS interfaces yet, despite a
comment in an LWN article from 2014 stating that "the first steps have
been taken; hopefully the rest will follow before too long".

Cheers,

					- Ted