Re: [PATCH 1/4] ns: prepare time namespace for clone3()

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Wed Mar 18 2020 - 07:17:45 EST


On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 01:57:47PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:30:41AM +0100, Adrian Reber wrote:
> ...
> > +/*
> > + * This structure is used to set the time namespace offset
> > + * via /proc as well as via clone3().
> > + */
> > +struct set_timens_offset {
> > + int clockid;
> > + struct timespec64 val;
> > +};
> > +
>
> I'm sorry, I didn't follow this series much so can't comment right now.
> Still this structure made me a bit wonder -- the @val seems to be 8 byte
> aligned and I guess we have a useless pad between these members. If so
> can we swap them? Or it is already part of api?

It's not part of the api yet. We're still arguing about how and what we
want to pass down.