This is another set of system call changes that were intended to get merged much earlier. I've rebased the patches on top of the latest kernel and Deepa's poll/select/io_pgetevents series now, and applied it to the same y2038 branch for inclusion in 4.21.
This is just a continuation of the earlier system call changes, so I expect no surprises here, unless I made a mistake in the rebase.
After this series, the only remaining system calls that need to be modified are:
- setsockopt/getsockopt, they do not need a new entry in the system call table, only new numbers assigned for their socket options. Deepa is finalizing her series to passing 64-bit timestamps in cmsg correctly for SO_TIMESTAMP{,NS,ING}. Further, we need a new SO_RCVTIMEO/SO_SNDTIMEO implementation here, which has not been implemented yet.
- waitid/getrusage, this needs a rewrite now from earlier versions based on recent feedback. The plan now is to incorporate nanosecond timestamps in a new revision of the 'rusage' structure. Possibly also include BSD wait6() semantics of passing back the child resource usage in waitid(), and/or a method to pass a signal mask as in io_pgetevents(). waitid/getrusage() are not required for correct behavior with 64-bit time_t and can be safely emulated on top of the existing syscalls by the C library beyond 2038. This needs more discussion.
- clock_adjtime, this is also optional and can be implemented by the C library if necessary. The plan is to do the same as x32 and use the 64-bit structure natively on both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. The timex structure contains a 'timeval' at the moment, but also supports nanoseconds passed in it.
- getitimer/setitimer, these again can be trivially emulated by the C library.
Arnd
Arnd Bergmann (5): y2038: futex: Move compat implementation into futex.c y2038: futex: Add support for __kernel_timespec y2038: socket: Add compat_sys_recvmmsg_time64 y2038: signal: Add sys_rt_sigtimedwait_time32 y2038: signal: Add compat_sys_rt_sigtimedwait_time64
include/linux/compat.h | 8 +- include/linux/futex.h | 8 -- include/linux/socket.h | 9 +- include/linux/syscalls.h | 9 +- kernel/Makefile | 3 - kernel/futex.c | 207 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- kernel/futex_compat.c | 202 -------------------------------------- kernel/signal.c | 65 ++++++++++++ kernel/sys_ni.c | 2 + net/compat.c | 34 +++---- net/socket.c | 62 +++++++++--- 11 files changed, 345 insertions(+), 264 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 kernel/futex_compat.c