drm: vblank: use ktime_t instead of timeval
The drm vblank handling uses 'timeval' to store timestamps in either monotonic or wall-clock time base. In either case, it reads the current time as a ktime_t in get_drm_timestamp() and converts it from there. This is a bit suspicious, as users of 'timeval' often suffer from the time_t overflow in y2038. I have gone through this code and found that it is unlikely to cause problems here: - The user space ABI does not use time_t or timeval, but uses 'u32' and 'long' as the types. This means at least that rebuilding user programs against a new libc with 64-bit time_t does not change the ABI. - As of commit c61eef72 ("drm: add support for monotonic vblank timestamps") in linux-3.8, the monotonic timestamp is the default and can only get reverted to wall-clock through a module-parameter. - With the default monotonic timestamps, there is no problem at all. - The drm_wait_vblank_ioctl() interface is alway safe on 64-bit architectures, on 32-bit it might overflow the 'long' timestamps in 2038 with wall-clock timestamps. - The event handling uses 'u32' seconds, which overflow in 2106 on both 32-bit and 64-bit machines, when wall-clock timestamps are used. - The effect of overflowing either of the two is only temporary (during the overflow, and is likely to keep working again afterwards. It is likely the same problem as observing a 'settimeofday()' call, which was the reason for moving to the monotonic timestamps in the first place. Overall, this seems good enough, so my patch removes the use of 'timeval' from the vblank handling altogether and uses ktime_t consistently, except for the part where we copy the data to user space structures in the existing format. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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