linux/include/asm-generic
Chris Metcalf 2c7387ef99 asm-generic/stat.h: support 64-bit file time_t for stat()
The existing asm-generic/stat.h specifies st_mtime, etc., as a 32-value,
and works well for 32-bit architectures (currently microblaze, score,
and 32-bit tile).  However, for 64-bit architectures it isn't sufficient
to return 32 bits of time_t; this isn't good insurance against the 2037
rollover.  (It also makes glibc support less convenient, since we can't
use glibc's handy STAT_IS_KERNEL_STAT mode.)

This change extends the two "timespec" fields for each of the three atime,
mtime, and ctime fields from "int" to "long".  As a result, on 32-bit
platforms nothing changes, and 64-bit platforms will now work as expected.

The only wrinkle is 32-bit userspace under 64-bit kernels taking advantage
of COMPAT mode.  For these, we leave the "struct stat64" definitions with
the "int" versions of the time_t and nsec fields, so that architectures
can implement compat_sys_stat64() and friends with sys_stat64(), etc.,
and get the expected 32-bit structure layout.  This requires a
field-by-field copy in the kernel, implemented by the code guarded
under __ARCH_WANT_STAT64.

This does mean that the shape of the "struct stat" and "struct stat64"
structures is different on a 64-bit kernel, but only one of the two
structures should ever be used by any given process: "struct stat"
is meant for 64-bit userspace only, and "struct stat64" for 32-bit
userspace only.  (On a 32-bit kernel the two structures continue to have
the same shape, since "long" is 32 bits.)

The alternative is keeping the two structures the same shape on 64-bit
kernels, which means a 64-bit time_t in "struct stat64" for 32-bit
processes.  This is a little unnatural since 32-bit userspace can't
do anything with 64 bits of time_t information, since time_t is just
"long", not "int64_t"; and in any case 32-bit userspace might expect
to be running under a 32-bit kernel, which can't provide the high 32
bits anyway.  In the case of a 32-bit kernel we'd then be extending the
kernel's 32-bit time_t to 64 bits, then truncating it back to 32 bits
again in userspace, for no particular reason.  And, as mentioned above,
if we have 64-bit time_t for 32-bit processes we can't easily use glibc's
STAT_IS_KERNEL_STAT, since glibc's stat structure requires an embedded
"struct timespec", which is a pair of "long" (32-bit) values in a 32-bit
userspace.  "Inventive" solutions are possible, but are pretty hacky.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2010-11-01 15:31:29 -04:00
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bitops
4level-fixup.h
atomic64.h
atomic-long.h
atomic.h Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic 2010-10-22 11:17:06 -07:00
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audit_signal.h
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auxvec.h
bitops.h
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bug.h
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cache.h
cacheflush.h
checksum.h
cmpxchg-local.h
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delay.h
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io.h
ioctl.h
ioctls.h
iomap.h
ipcbuf.h
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irq.h
irqflags.h
Kbuild
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libata-portmap.h
linkage.h
local64.h
local.h
memory_model.h
mm_hooks.h
mman-common.h
mman.h
mmu_context.h
mmu.h
module.h
msgbuf.h
mutex-dec.h
mutex-null.h
mutex-xchg.h
mutex.h
page.h
param.h
parport.h
pci-dma-compat.h
pci.h
percpu.h
pgalloc.h
pgtable-nopmd.h
pgtable-nopud.h
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resource.h
rtc.h
scatterlist.h
sections.h
segment.h
sembuf.h
serial.h
setup.h
shmbuf.h
shmparam.h
siginfo.h
signal-defs.h
signal.h
socket.h
sockios.h
spinlock.h
stat.h asm-generic/stat.h: support 64-bit file time_t for stat() 2010-11-01 15:31:29 -04:00
statfs.h
string.h
swab.h
syscall.h
syscalls.h
system.h
termbits.h
termios-base.h
termios.h
timex.h
tlb.h
tlbflush.h
topology.h
types.h
uaccess-unaligned.h
uaccess.h
ucontext.h
unaligned.h
unistd.h
user.h
vga.h
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