Re: [PATCH 09/10] fs: ceph: Replace CURRENT_TIME by ktime_get_real_ts()

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday 03 February 2016 08:17:23 Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 10:34:00PM +0800, Yan, Zheng wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > --- a/fs/ceph/mds_client.c
> > > +++ b/fs/ceph/mds_client.c
> > > @@ -1721,7 +1721,7 @@ ceph_mdsc_create_request(struct ceph_mds_client *mdsc, int op, int mode)
> > >         init_completion(&req->r_safe_completion);
> > >         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&req->r_unsafe_item);
> > >
> > > -       req->r_stamp = CURRENT_TIME;
> > > +       ktime_get_real_ts(&req->r_stamp);
> > 
> > I think we should use current_fs_time() here. I have squash the change
> > into another patch
> 
> Ok. I missed this commit b8e69066d8afa8d2670dc697252ff0e5907aafad
> earlier which says that the r_stamp is used as ctime now.
> I had assumed that this is a message timestamp.
> 
> I was not able to find any documentation on what the server does
> with the message sent by the client. Where can I find that?
> 
> So, this should actually look like
> 
> req->r_stamp = current_fs_time(mdsc->fsc->sb);
> 
> Let me know if you want me to resend.

I see that the timestamp is sent using

	ceph_encode_copy(&p, &req->r_stamp, sizeof(req->r_stamp));

What happens with the timestamp across reboots if we change the
type? I assume the data will not be used across reboots, if it
does, we already have a problem on machines that can boot
both big-endian and little-endian kernels, or that can boot
both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels.

	Arnd