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At this point, we have converted most of the kernel to use timespec64 consistently in place of timespec, so it seems it's time to make timespec64 the native structure and define timespec in terms of that one on 64-bit architectures. Starting with gcc-5, the compiler can completely optimize away the timespec_to_timespec64 and timespec64_to_timespec functions on 64-bit architectures. With older compilers, we introduce a couple of extra copies of local variables, but those are easily avoided by using the timespec64 based interfaces consistently, as we do in most of the important code paths already. The main upside of removing the hack is that printing the tv_sec field of a timespec64 structure can now use the %lld format string on all architectures without a cast to time64_t. Without this patch, the field is a 'long' type and would have to be printed using %ld on 64-bit architectures. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180427134016.2525989-2-arnd@arndb.de
Linux kernel
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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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.