Re: [tip:timers/urgent] ktime: Get rid of the union

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 05:26:33AM -0800, tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Commit-ID:  64dac5c9e0f5a933e4520f0cb689b7b143925207
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/64dac5c9e0f5a933e4520f0cb689b7b143925207
> Author:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 11:38:40 +0100
> Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 13:11:50 +0100
> 
> ktime: Get rid of the union
> 
> ktime is a union because the initial implementation stored the time in
> scalar nanoseconds on 64 bit machine and in a endianess optimized timespec
> variant for 32bit machines. The Y2038 cleanup removed the timespec variant
> and switched everything to scalar nanoseconds. The union remained, but
> become completely pointless.
> 
> Get rid of the union and just keep ktime_t as simple typedef of type s64.

All good stuff. One question that remains is why keep the type while
removing the cycles_t type?