[PATCH 2/3] futex: Store time as ktime_t in restart block

From: Thomas Weißschuh

Date: Mon Nov 10 2025 - 04:40:29 EST


The futex core uses ktime_t to represent times,
use that also for the restart block.

This also allows the simplification of the accessors.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/restart_block.h | 2 +-
kernel/futex/waitwake.c | 9 ++++-----
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/restart_block.h b/include/linux/restart_block.h
index 0798a4ae67c6c75749c38c4673ab8ea012261319..3c2bd13f609120a8a914f6e738ffea97bf72c32d 100644
--- a/include/linux/restart_block.h
+++ b/include/linux/restart_block.h
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ struct restart_block {
u32 val;
u32 flags;
u32 bitset;
- u64 time;
+ ktime_t time;
u32 __user *uaddr2;
} futex;
/* For nanosleep */
diff --git a/kernel/futex/waitwake.c b/kernel/futex/waitwake.c
index e2bbe5509ec27a18785227358d4ff8d8f913ddc1..1c2dd03f11ec4e5d34d1a9f67ef01e05604b3bac 100644
--- a/kernel/futex/waitwake.c
+++ b/kernel/futex/waitwake.c
@@ -738,12 +738,11 @@ int futex_wait(u32 __user *uaddr, unsigned int flags, u32 val, ktime_t *abs_time
static long futex_wait_restart(struct restart_block *restart)
{
u32 __user *uaddr = restart->futex.uaddr;
- ktime_t t, *tp = NULL;
+ ktime_t *tp = NULL;
+
+ if (restart->futex.flags & FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT)
+ tp = &restart->futex.time;

- if (restart->futex.flags & FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT) {
- t = restart->futex.time;
- tp = &t;
- }
restart->fn = do_no_restart_syscall;

return (long)futex_wait(uaddr, restart->futex.flags,

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2.51.0