On Friday 08 January 2016 09:47:39 Alison Schofield wrote:
divamnt stores a start_time at module init and uses it to calculate elapsed time. That elapsed time, stored in secs and usecs, is part of the trace data the driver maintains for the DIVA Server ISDN cards. No change to the format of that time data is required.
To avoid overflow on 32-bit systems, change how time data is obtained: - replace struct timeval with struct timespec64 - replace do_gettimeofday() with ktime_get_ts64() - use timespec64_sub() to calculate elapsed time
This is a change from real to monotonic time. Since the driver only stores elapsed time, monotonic time is sufficient and more robust against real time clock changes.
These time deltas are stored in unsigned 32 bits. This is safe as we are always storing time deltas.
Remove declaration and init of unused time constants.
Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield amsfield22@gmail.com
Hi Alison,
I've finally gotten around to look at the patch, and it all looks correct to me in this version, so please post that to the appropriate maintainer lists now.
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de
I think there would be an alternative approach, by removing the 'start_time' completely and directly returning the time from ktime_get_ts64() here. This would make the returned time values slightly different, as they start at system boot time rather than driver load time, but it's only used for debugging, and the normal monotonic times are more useful for that (you can easily compare them to other timestamps).
If you want to do that instead, that is also fine with me.
Arnd