Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] Linux/Alpha: don't use timeval32 system calls.

[Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx dot de>]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:10:36 -0300
Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 25/10/2019 10:04, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> > Hi Adhemerval,
> > 
> > Thanks for re-sending those patches to ML. Please find some comments
> > below.
> >   
> [...]
> >> +/* Conversion functions.  If the seconds field of a timeval32
> >> would
> >> +   overflow, they write { INT32_MAX, TV_USEC_MAX } to the output.
> >>  */ +
> >> +static inline void
> >> +tv32_to_tv64 (struct timeval *restrict tv64,
> >> +              const struct timeval32 *restrict tv32)
> >> +{
> >> +  tv64->tv_sec = tv32->tv_sec;
> >> +  tv64->tv_usec = tv32->tv_usec;
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> +static inline void
> >> +tv32_to_ts64 (struct timespec *restrict ts64,
> >> +              const struct timeval32 *restrict tv32)
> >> +{
> >> +  ts64->tv_sec = tv32->tv_sec;
> >> +  ts64->tv_nsec = tv32->tv_usec * 1000;
> >> +}  
> > 
> > The ./include/time.h already provides such helper conversion
> > function - valid_timeval_to_timespec64 ();
> > 
> > There are also defined:
> > valid_timespec_to_timespec64 ();
> > valid_timespec64_to_timespec ();
> > valid_timespec64_to_timeval ();
> > 
> > There is also a different approach (as suggested some time ago by
> > Paul)
> > - those helper functions now return the converted structure and
> > accept value (not pointer) to convert.  
> 
> They are not really the same since they use different types.  The
> timeval32 for alpha is not exported anymore, it just support the
> time64 types.  Alpha is really an outlier and I don't think it really
> fits on the time64 refactoring you are doing for 32-bit archs.  So I
> think we should really add this arch-specific transformation function.
> 

Yes. You are right (I didn't notice the aplha specific struct
timeval32).

> I changed the required routines to mimic the valid_* one on
> include/time.h.
> 

Ok.


Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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