Re: [PATCH] PM / Hibernate: Migrate to ktime_t

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, October 30, 2014 08:08:17 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 30 October 2014 11:04:53 Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> > This patch migrates swsusp_show_speed and its callers to using ktime_t instead
> > of 'struct timeval' which suffers from the y2038 problem.
> > 
> > Changes to swsusp_show_speed:
> >         - use ktime_t for start and stop times
> >         - pass start and stop times by value
> > Calling functions affected:
> >         - load_image
> >         - load_image_lzo
> >         - save_image
> >         - save_image_lzo
> >         - hibernate_preallocate_memory
> > Design decisions:
> >         - use ktime_t to preserve same granularity of reporting as before
> >         - use centisecs logic as before to avoid 'div by zero' issues caused by
> >           using seconds and nanoseconds directly
> >         - use monotonic time (ktime_get()) since we only care about elapsed time.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Patch queued up for 3.19-rc1, thanks!


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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