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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com>
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
	DTML <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	c-sky_gcc_upstream@c-sky.com, gnu-csky@mentor.com,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
	wbx@uclibc-ng.org, Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 00/27] C-SKY(csky) Linux Kernel Port
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:46:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a0fZYbd4a2nBnExPVXKs-898R9vaCSa4kXyz0qA=rCzZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180914143719.GA27689@guoren-Inspiron-7460>

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 4:37 PM Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 04:30:36PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 3:25 PM Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com> wrote:
> >
> > One big question for me is what to do about time_t. Deepa and I are
> > in the process of finalizing the system call ABI for 32-bit architectures
> > with 64-bit time_t, but we are not done yet and it won't be complete
> > for 4.20. If you target 4.21, that could be a chance to make csky the
> > first architecture to only need the 64-bit time_t interface, with the
> > corresponding user space changes.
> y2038 is very important and csky32 has the issue. But 4.21 is too late for
> us, we really want to get into kernel.org as soon as possible.
> We could remove 32-bit time_t in future.

Not really: the way we deal with user-visible APIs in the kernel, it's
practically impossible to remove something that was working before,
since there may always be users relying on it. This is why it is so
important that we get the ABI right at the first try.

We can always add new ABIs later, and that's what we're doing with
all the other 32-bit architectures as well: each system call that takes a
32-bit time_t argument also needs to get the corresponding 64-bit
replacement, and then we have to keep them both around.

However, once the 64-bit syscalls are there, you don't need to
use them, so if you merge the glibc port after both csky and
the time64 syscalls are merged upstream, you can choose
to only support the time64 syscalls rather than making it a compile
time decision in each application. If you merge the glibc port
before migrating to 64-bit syscalls, glibc will also have to support
both indefinitely for compatibility with existing binaries.

One level below that, you can of course choose to build
a distro with only 64-bit time_t regardless of whether there
is still support for 32-bit time_t in kernel and glibc or not.

        Arnd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-14 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-12 13:24 [PATCH V4 00/27] C-SKY(csky) Linux Kernel Port Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 01/27] csky: Build infrastructure Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 02/27] csky: defconfig Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 03/27] csky: Kernel booting Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 04/27] csky: Exception handling Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 05/27] csky: System Call Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 06/27] csky: Cache and TLB routines Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 07/27] csky: MMU and page table management Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 08/27] csky: Process management and Signal Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 09/27] csky: VDSO and rt_sigreturn Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 10/27] csky: IRQ handling Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 12/27] csky: ELF and module probe Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 13/27] csky: Library functions Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 14/27] csky: User access Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 15/27] csky: Debug and Ptrace GDB Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 16/27] csky: SMP support Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 18/27] dt-bindings: csky CPU Bindings Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 19/27] dt-bindings: timer: gx6605s SOC timer Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 20/27] dt-bindings: timer: C-SKY Multi-processor timer Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 22/27] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: C-SKY SMP intc Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24 ` [PATCH V3 23/27] clocksource: add gx6605s SOC system timer Guo Ren
2018-09-12 13:24   ` Guo Ren
     [not found] ` <abb46d366b513b814f7af234d560306a818b7324.1536757532.git.ren_guo@c-sky.com>
2018-09-12 14:22   ` [PATCH V3 17/27] csky: Misc headers Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-12 14:22     ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-12 14:30 ` [PATCH V4 00/27] C-SKY(csky) Linux Kernel Port Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-12 14:30   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-14 14:37   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-14 14:37     ` Guo Ren
2018-09-14 14:46     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2018-09-14 14:46       ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-14 16:02       ` Guo Ren
2018-09-14 16:02         ` Guo Ren
2018-09-14 16:09         ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-14 16:09           ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-14 23:28           ` Guo Ren
2018-09-14 23:28             ` Guo Ren
2018-09-20 17:52     ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-09-20 17:52       ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-09-21  5:18       ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-21  5:18         ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-21 23:48         ` Guo Ren
2018-09-21 23:48           ` Guo Ren
2018-09-24  7:21         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-24  7:21           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-24  8:47           ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-24  8:47             ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-16  1:07   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-16  1:07     ` Guo Ren
2018-09-16  4:53   ` Guo Ren
2018-09-16  4:53     ` Guo Ren
2018-09-17 11:54     ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-17 11:54       ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-17 12:03       ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-17 12:03         ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-17 14:50         ` Guo Ren
2018-09-17 14:50           ` Guo Ren
2018-09-17 14:37       ` Guo Ren
2018-09-17 14:37         ` Guo Ren
     [not found] ` <93e8b592e429c156ad4d4ca5d85ef48fd0ab8b70.1536757532.git.ren_guo@c-sky.com>
2018-09-12 15:55   ` [PATCH V3 11/27] csky: Atomic operations Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-12 15:55     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-15 14:55     ` Guo Ren
2018-09-15 14:55       ` Guo Ren
2018-09-17  8:17       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-17  8:17         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-17 15:05         ` Guo Ren
2018-09-17 15:05           ` Guo Ren

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