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Thomas Gleixner 41ea39101d y2038: Add time64 system calls
This series finally gets us to the point of having system calls with
 64-bit time_t on all architectures, after a long time of incremental
 preparation patches.
 
 There was actually one conversion that I missed during the summer,
 i.e. Deepa's timex series, which I now updated based the 5.0-rc1 changes
 and review comments.
 
 The following system calls are now added on all 32-bit architectures
 using the same system call numbers:
 
 403 clock_gettime64
 404 clock_settime64
 405 clock_adjtime64
 406 clock_getres_time64
 407 clock_nanosleep_time64
 408 timer_gettime64
 409 timer_settime64
 410 timerfd_gettime64
 411 timerfd_settime64
 412 utimensat_time64
 413 pselect6_time64
 414 ppoll_time64
 416 io_pgetevents_time64
 417 recvmmsg_time64
 418 mq_timedsend_time64
 419 mq_timedreceiv_time64
 420 semtimedop_time64
 421 rt_sigtimedwait_time64
 422 futex_time64
 423 sched_rr_get_interval_time64
 
 Each one of these corresponds directly to an existing system call
 that includes a 'struct timespec' argument, or a structure containing
 a timespec or (in case of clock_adjtime) timeval. Not included here
 are new versions of getitimer/setitimer and getrusage/waitid, which
 are planned for the future but only needed to make a consistent API
 rather than for correct operation beyond y2038. These four system
 calls are based on 'timeval', and it has not been finally decided
 what the replacement kernel interface will use instead.
 
 So far, I have done a lot of build testing across most architectures,
 which has found a number of bugs. Runtime testing so far included
 testing LTP on 32-bit ARM with the existing system calls, to ensure
 we do not regress for existing binaries, and a test with a 32-bit
 x86 build of LTP against a modified version of the musl C library
 that has been adapted to the new system call interface [3].
 This library can be used for testing on all architectures supported
 by musl-1.1.21, but it is not how the support is getting integrated
 into the official musl release. Official musl support is planned
 but will require more invasive changes to the library.
 
 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190110162435.309262-1-arnd@arndb.de/T/
 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190118161835.2259170-1-arnd@arndb.de/
 Link: https://git.linaro.org/people/arnd/musl-y2038.git/ [2]
 Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Merge tag 'y2038-new-syscalls' of git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground into timers/2038

Pull y2038 - time64 system calls from Arnd Bergmann:

This series finally gets us to the point of having system calls with 64-bit
time_t on all architectures, after a long time of incremental preparation
patches.

There was actually one conversion that I missed during the summer,
i.e. Deepa's timex series, which I now updated based the 5.0-rc1 changes
and review comments.

The following system calls are now added on all 32-bit architectures using
the same system call numbers:

403 clock_gettime64
404 clock_settime64
405 clock_adjtime64
406 clock_getres_time64
407 clock_nanosleep_time64
408 timer_gettime64
409 timer_settime64
410 timerfd_gettime64
411 timerfd_settime64
412 utimensat_time64
413 pselect6_time64
414 ppoll_time64
416 io_pgetevents_time64
417 recvmmsg_time64
418 mq_timedsend_time64
419 mq_timedreceiv_time64
420 semtimedop_time64
421 rt_sigtimedwait_time64
422 futex_time64
423 sched_rr_get_interval_time64

Each one of these corresponds directly to an existing system call that
includes a 'struct timespec' argument, or a structure containing a timespec
or (in case of clock_adjtime) timeval. Not included here are new versions
of getitimer/setitimer and getrusage/waitid, which are planned for the
future but only needed to make a consistent API rather than for correct
operation beyond y2038. These four system calls are based on 'timeval', and
it has not been finally decided what the replacement kernel interface will
use instead.

So far, I have done a lot of build testing across most architectures, which
has found a number of bugs. Runtime testing so far included testing LTP on
32-bit ARM with the existing system calls, to ensure we do not regress for
existing binaries, and a test with a 32-bit x86 build of LTP against a
modified version of the musl C library that has been adapted to the new
system call interface [3].  This library can be used for testing on all
architectures supported by musl-1.1.21, but it is not how the support is
getting integrated into the official musl release. Official musl support is
planned but will require more invasive changes to the library.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190110162435.309262-1-arnd@arndb.de/T/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190118161835.2259170-1-arnd@arndb.de/
Link: https://git.linaro.org/people/arnd/musl-y2038.git/ [2]
2019-02-10 21:24:43 +01:00
Documentation platform-drivers-x86 for v5.0-2 2019-02-07 15:54:45 -07:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
arch y2038: Add time64 system calls 2019-02-10 21:24:43 +01:00
block blk-mq: fix a hung issue when fsync 2019-01-30 08:53:54 -07:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto crypto: sm3 - fix undefined shift by >= width of value 2019-01-10 21:37:32 +08:00
drivers y2038: Add time64 system calls 2019-02-10 21:24:43 +01:00
firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
fs y2038: Add time64 system calls 2019-02-10 21:24:43 +01:00
include y2038: Add time64 system calls 2019-02-10 21:24:43 +01:00
init psi: clarify the Kconfig text for the default-disable option 2019-02-01 15:46:24 -08:00
ipc y2038: syscalls: rename y2038 compat syscalls 2019-02-07 00:13:27 +01:00
kernel y2038: Add time64 system calls 2019-02-10 21:24:43 +01:00
lib lib/test_kmod.c: potential double free in error handling 2019-02-01 15:46:23 -08:00
mm mm: migrate: don't rely on __PageMovable() of newpage after unlocking it 2019-02-01 15:46:24 -08:00
net y2038: Add time64 system calls 2019-02-10 21:24:43 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: workaround clang asm goto compilation errors 2019-01-15 20:57:30 +01:00
scripts y2038: Add time64 system calls 2019-02-10 21:24:43 +01:00
security apparmor: Fix aa_label_build() error handling for failed merges 2019-02-01 08:01:39 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.0-rc6 2019-02-07 08:33:56 +00:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-02-03 08:59:51 -08:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt kvm: fix kvm_ioctl_create_device() reference counting (CVE-2019-6974) 2019-02-07 19:02:38 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update .clang-format with the latest for_each macro list 2019-01-19 19:26:06 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap A few early MIPS fixes for 4.21: 2019-01-05 12:48:25 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Add CREDITS entry for Shaohua Li 2019-01-04 14:27:09 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules 2019-01-06 10:22:35 +09:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-02-03 09:08:12 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.0-rc5 2019-02-03 13:48:04 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.