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Linus Torvalds 7a932516f5 vfs/y2038: inode timestamps conversion to timespec64
This is a late set of changes from Deepa Dinamani doing an automated
 treewide conversion of the inode and iattr structures from 'timespec'
 to 'timespec64', to push the conversion from the VFS layer into the
 individual file systems.
 
 There were no conflicts between this and the contents of linux-next
 until just before the merge window, when we saw multiple problems:
 
 - A minor conflict with my own y2038 fixes, which I could address
   by adding another patch on top here.
 - One semantic conflict with late changes to the NFS tree. I addressed
   this by merging Deepa's original branch on top of the changes that
   now got merged into mainline and making sure the merge commit includes
   the necessary changes as produced by coccinelle.
 - A trivial conflict against the removal of staging/lustre.
 - Multiple conflicts against the VFS changes in the overlayfs tree.
   These are still part of linux-next, but apparently this is no longer
   intended for 4.18 [1], so I am ignoring that part.
 
 As Deepa writes:
 
   The series aims to switch vfs timestamps to use struct timespec64.
   Currently vfs uses struct timespec, which is not y2038 safe.
 
   The series involves the following:
   1. Add vfs helper functions for supporting struct timepec64 timestamps.
   2. Cast prints of vfs timestamps to avoid warnings after the switch.
   3. Simplify code using vfs timestamps so that the actual
      replacement becomes easy.
   4. Convert vfs timestamps to use struct timespec64 using a script.
      This is a flag day patch.
 
   Next steps:
   1. Convert APIs that can handle timespec64, instead of converting
      timestamps at the boundaries.
   2. Update internal data structures to avoid timestamp conversions.
 
 Thomas Gleixner adds:
 
   I think there is no point to drag that out for the next merge window.
   The whole thing needs to be done in one go for the core changes which
   means that you're going to play that catchup game forever. Let's get
   over with it towards the end of the merge window.
 
 [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg128294.html
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Merge tag 'vfs-timespec64' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground

Pull inode timestamps conversion to timespec64 from Arnd Bergmann:
 "This is a late set of changes from Deepa Dinamani doing an automated
  treewide conversion of the inode and iattr structures from 'timespec'
  to 'timespec64', to push the conversion from the VFS layer into the
  individual file systems.

  As Deepa writes:

   'The series aims to switch vfs timestamps to use struct timespec64.
    Currently vfs uses struct timespec, which is not y2038 safe.

    The series involves the following:
    1. Add vfs helper functions for supporting struct timepec64
       timestamps.
    2. Cast prints of vfs timestamps to avoid warnings after the switch.
    3. Simplify code using vfs timestamps so that the actual replacement
       becomes easy.
    4. Convert vfs timestamps to use struct timespec64 using a script.
       This is a flag day patch.

    Next steps:
    1. Convert APIs that can handle timespec64, instead of converting
       timestamps at the boundaries.
    2. Update internal data structures to avoid timestamp conversions'

  Thomas Gleixner adds:

   'I think there is no point to drag that out for the next merge
    window. The whole thing needs to be done in one go for the core
    changes which means that you're going to play that catchup game
    forever. Let's get over with it towards the end of the merge window'"

* tag 'vfs-timespec64' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground:
  pstore: Remove bogus format string definition
  vfs: change inode times to use struct timespec64
  pstore: Convert internal records to timespec64
  udf: Simplify calls to udf_disk_stamp_to_time
  fs: nfs: get rid of memcpys for inode times
  ceph: make inode time prints to be long long
  lustre: Use long long type to print inode time
  fs: add timespec64_truncate()
2018-06-15 07:31:07 +09:00
arch Kbuild: rename HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR config variable 2018-06-15 07:15:28 +09:00
block treewide: Use array_size() in vzalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto treewide: Use array_size() in sock_kmalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
Documentation The main piece is a set of libceph changes that revamps how OSD 2018-06-15 07:24:58 +09:00
drivers vfs/y2038: inode timestamps conversion to timespec64 2018-06-15 07:31:07 +09:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs vfs/y2038: inode timestamps conversion to timespec64 2018-06-15 07:31:07 +09:00
include vfs/y2038: inode timestamps conversion to timespec64 2018-06-15 07:31:07 +09:00
init Kbuild updates for v4.18 (2nd) 2018-06-13 08:40:34 -07:00
ipc treewide: kvmalloc() -> kvmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
kernel kconfig: tinyconfig: remove stale stack protector fixups 2018-06-15 07:15:28 +09:00
lib Kbuild updates for v4.18 (2nd) 2018-06-13 08:40:34 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm treewide: Use array_size() in vmalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
net The main piece is a set of libceph changes that revamps how OSD 2018-06-15 07:24:58 +09:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.18 2018-06-12 13:11:26 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.18 (2nd) 2018-06-13 08:40:34 -07:00
security + Features 2018-06-14 16:11:28 +09:00
sound - Error path bug fix for overflow tests (Dan) 2018-06-12 18:28:00 -07:00
tools Additional power management updates for 4.18-rc1 2018-06-13 07:24:18 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt - Error path bug fix for overflow tests (Dan) 2018-06-12 18:28:00 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'asoc-4.17' into asoc-4.18 for compress dependencies 2018-04-26 12:24:28 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2018-06-14 16:21:46 +09:00
Makefile Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables 2018-06-14 12:21:18 +09:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.