Re: [Y2038] [PATCH v4 4/4] input: serio: Replace timeval by timespec64

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 10:13 -0800, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> struct timeval is not y2038 safe.
> All references to timeval will be deleted from the
> kernel to make it y2038 safe.
> Replace its uses by y2038 safe struct timespec64.
> 
> The timestamps changed here only keep track of delta
> times. These timestamps are also internal to kernel.
> Hence, monotonic times are sufficient here.
> The unit of the delta times is also changed in certain
> cases to nanoseconds rather than microseconds. This is
> in line with timespec64 which keeps time in nanoseconds.
[...]
> --- a/drivers/input/serio/hil_mlc.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/serio/hil_mlc.c
[...]
> @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ static const struct hilse_node hil_mlc_se[HILSEN_END] = {
> Â	FUNC(hilse_init_lcv, 0,	HILSEN_NEXT,	HILSEN_SLEEP,	0)
> Â
> Â	/* 1ÂÂHILSEN_RESTART */
> -	FUNC(hilse_inc_lcv, 10,	HILSEN_NEXT,	HILSEN_START,ÂÂ0)
> +	FUNC(hilse_inc_lcv, 10000,	HILSEN_NEXT,	HILSEN_START,ÂÂ0)
[...]

The second macro argument here ends up as the second argument to
hilse_inc_lcv() which appears to limit the number of retries, not a
time limit.  So I don't think the value here (or wherever else
hilse_inc_lcv is referenced) should be changed.

The EXPECT, EXPECT_LAST etc. macros take a timeout ('to' parameter)
which is then assigned to hil_mlc::intimeout, so it seems that those
*should* be scaled up, but this patch doesn't do that.  It also doesn't
change the type of hil_mlc::intimeout (suseconds_t implying units of
microseconds) or the comment on hilse_node::arg.

Alternately, it might be safer to keep all the timeouts in units of
microseconds.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.