At the moment, the compilation of the old time32 system calls depends purely on the architecture. As systems with new libc based on 64-bit time_t are getting deployed, even architectures that previously supported these (notably x86-32 and arm32 but also many others) no longer depend on them, and removing them from a kernel image results in a smaller kernel binary, the same way we can leave out many other optional system calls.
More importantly, on an embedded system that needs to keep working beyond year 2038, any user space program calling these system calls is likely a bug, so removing them from the kernel image does provide an extra debugging help for finding broken applications.
I've gone back and forth on hiding this option unless CONFIG_EXPERT is set. This version leaves it visible based on the logic that eventually it will be turned off indefinitely.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de --- arch/Kconfig | 3 ++- kernel/sys_ni.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 0e1fded2940e..1203955ed4d0 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -797,7 +797,8 @@ config COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION bool
config COMPAT_32BIT_TIME - def_bool !64BIT || COMPAT + bool "Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t" + default !64BIT || COMPAT help This enables 32 bit time_t support in addition to 64 bit time_t support. This is relevant on all 32-bit architectures, and 64-bit architectures diff --git a/kernel/sys_ni.c b/kernel/sys_ni.c index 34b76895b81e..3b69a560a7ac 100644 --- a/kernel/sys_ni.c +++ b/kernel/sys_ni.c @@ -410,6 +410,29 @@ COND_SYSCALL(send); COND_SYSCALL(bdflush); COND_SYSCALL(uselib);
+/* optional: time32 */ +COND_SYSCALL(time32); +COND_SYSCALL(stime32); +COND_SYSCALL(utime32); +COND_SYSCALL(adjtimex_time32); +COND_SYSCALL(sched_rr_get_interval_time32); +COND_SYSCALL(nanosleep_time32); +COND_SYSCALL(rt_sigtimedwait_time32); +COND_SYSCALL_COMPAT(rt_sigtimedwait_time32); +COND_SYSCALL(timer_settime32); +COND_SYSCALL(timer_gettime32); +COND_SYSCALL(clock_settime32); +COND_SYSCALL(clock_gettime32); +COND_SYSCALL(clock_getres_time32); +COND_SYSCALL(clock_nanosleep_time32); +COND_SYSCALL(utimes_time32); +COND_SYSCALL(futimesat_time32); +COND_SYSCALL(pselect6_time32); +COND_SYSCALL_COMPAT(pselect6_time32); +COND_SYSCALL(ppoll_time32); +COND_SYSCALL_COMPAT(ppoll_time32); +COND_SYSCALL(utimensat_time32); +COND_SYSCALL(clock_adjtime32);
/* * The syscalls below are not found in include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h