Re: [PATCH] infiniband: cxgb4: use ktime_get for timestamps

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:44:53PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The debugfs file prints the difference between host timestamps as a
> seconds/nanoseconds tuple, along with a 64-bit nanoseconds hardware
> timestamp. The host time is read using getnstimeofday() which is
> deprecated because of the y2038 overflow, and it suffers from time jumps
> during settimeofday() and leap seconds.
> 
> Converting to ktime_get_ts64() would solve those two, but I'm going
> a little further here by changing to ktime_get() and printing 64-bit
> nanoseconds on both host and hw timestamps.  This simplifies the code
> further and makes the output easier to understand.
> 
> The format of the debugfs file obviously changes here, but this should
> only be read by humans and not scripts, so I assume it's fine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c   | 34 +++++++++++++++-------------------
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/iw_cxgb4.h |  4 ++--
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/qp.c       |  6 +++---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/t4.h       |  4 ++--
>  4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

Steve? This changes the format of the debugfs files, so please ack it
if it is Ok..

Thanks,
Jason