The timespec structure and associated interfaces are deprecated and will be removed in the future because of the y2038 overflow.
The use of ktime_to_timespec() in timeout_to_jiffies() does not suffer from that overflow, but is easy to avoid by just converting the ktime_t into jiffies directly.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de --- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h index 71547e756e29..740bf7c70d8f 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h @@ -454,8 +454,7 @@ static inline unsigned long timeout_to_jiffies(const ktime_t *timeout) remaining_jiffies = 0; } else { ktime_t rem = ktime_sub(*timeout, now); - struct timespec ts = ktime_to_timespec(rem); - remaining_jiffies = timespec_to_jiffies(&ts); + remaining_jiffies = ktime_divns(rem, NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ); }
return remaining_jiffies;