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    Merge tag 'y2038-new-syscalls' of git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground into timers/2038
    
    Pull y2038 - time64 system calls from Arnd Bergmann:
    
    This series finally gets us to the point of having system calls with 64-bit
    time_t on all architectures, after a long time of incremental preparation
    patches.
    
    There was actually one conversion that I missed during the summer,
    i.e. Deepa's timex series, which I now updated based the 5.0-rc1 changes
    and review comments.
    
    The following system calls are now added on all 32-bit architectures using
    the same system call numbers:
    
    403 clock_gettime64
    404 clock_settime64
    405 clock_adjtime64
    406 clock_getres_time64
    407 clock_nanosleep_time64
    408 timer_gettime64
    409 timer_settime64
    410 timerfd_gettime64
    411 timerfd_settime64
    412 utimensat_time64
    413 pselect6_time64
    414 ppoll_time64
    416 io_pgetevents_time64
    417 recvmmsg_time64
    418 mq_timedsend_time64
    419 mq_timedreceiv_time64
    420 semtimedop_time64
    421 rt_sigtimedwait_time64
    422 futex_time64
    423 sched_rr_get_interval_time64
    
    Each one of these corresponds directly to an existing system call that
    includes a 'struct timespec' argument, or a structure containing a timespec
    or (in case of clock_adjtime) timeval. Not included here are new versions
    of getitimer/setitimer and getrusage/waitid, which are planned for the
    future but only needed to make a consistent API rather than for correct
    operation beyond y2038. These four system calls are based on 'timeval', and
    it has not been finally decided what the replacement kernel interface will
    use instead.
    
    So far, I have done a lot of build testing across most architectures, which
    has found a number of bugs. Runtime testing so far included testing LTP on
    32-bit ARM with the existing system calls, to ensure we do not regress for
    existing binaries, and a test with a 32-bit x86 build of LTP against a
    modified version of the musl C library that has been adapted to the new
    system call interface [3].  This library can be used for testing on all
    architectures supported by musl-1.1.21, but it is not how the support is
    getting integrated into the official musl release. Official musl support is
    planned but will require more invasive changes to the library.
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190110162435.309262-1-arnd@arndb.de/T/
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190118161835.2259170-1-arnd@arndb.de/
    Link: https://git.linaro.org/people/arnd/musl-y2038.git/ [2]
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