Re: [GIT PULL v2] timestamp fixes

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 12:28, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And that's ok when we're talking about times that are kernel running
> times and we haev a couple of centuries to say "ok, we'll need to make
> it be a bigger type",

Note that the "couple of centuries" here is mostly the machine uptime,
not necessarily "we'll need to change the time in the year 2292".

Although we do also have "ktime_get_real()" which is encoding the
whole "nanoseconds since 1970". That *will* break in 2292.

Anyway, regardless, I am *not* suggesting that ktime_t would be useful
for filesystems, because of this issue.

I *do* suspect that we might consider a "tenth of a microsecond", though.

Resolution-wise, it's pretty much in the "system call time" order of
magnitude, and if we have Linux filesystems around in the year-31k,
I'll happily consider it to be a SEP thing at that point ("somebody
else's problem").

                  Linus