[RFC 03/10] y2038: Convert __lll_futex* functions to use futex_time64 when available

[Lukasz Majewski]

Hi Joseph,

> On Sun, 12 Jul 2020, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> 
> > Dear Community,
> >   
> > > As the 'futex' syscall is wrapped with a C preprocessor macros,
> > > it was necessary to provide new set of those to replace call it
> > > with Y2038 safe 'futex_time64' syscall.
> > > 
> > > The current code expand wrapper's arguments as __VA_ARGS__ when
> > > more than three arguments are passed. For the conversion it was
> > > necessary to also have 'timeout' explicitly passed, and hence the
> > > introduction of lll_futex_syscall_time64_4 and
> > > lll_futex_syscall_time64 functions. The former expects exactly 4
> > > arguments - timeout is the last one. 
> > 
> > Comments are more than welcome.  
> 
> There are some formatting issues in this patch series.  This patch 
> contains function / macro calls missing the space before '(', for
> example.
> 

Thank you for your comment.

Do you have any comments regarding the proposed approach to convert
futex to futex_time64 (i.e. to provide 64 bit time support to nptl) ?


Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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