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Staging: lustre: lnet: Improve 'incarnation' stamp

ksock_net_t uses a __u64 quantity as an 'incarnation' timestamp. This is also
passed on in hello messages and used to detect if a reboot has occurred.
This 'incarnation' is obtained using do_gettimeofday.It is only used in equality
checks, so the absolute value does not matter.

This patch replaces do_gettimeofday with ktime_get_ns for the following reasons:
1. ktime_get_ns returns a __u64 which is safer than 'struct timeval'
which will overflow on 32-bit systems in year 2038 and beyond.
2. Reduced compute: ktime_get_ns is faster than the multiply/add
   combination used in this function

Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tina Ruchandani 11 years ago
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1 changed files with 3 additions and 8 deletions
  1. 3 8
      drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c

+ 3 - 8
drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/socklnd/socklnd.c

@@ -2348,16 +2348,11 @@ ksocknal_base_shutdown(void)
 static __u64
 ksocknal_new_incarnation (void)
 {
-	struct timeval tv;
 
 	/* The incarnation number is the time this module loaded and it
-	 * identifies this particular instance of the socknal.  Hopefully
-	 * we won't be able to reboot more frequently than 1MHz for the
-	 * foreseeable future :) */
-
-	do_gettimeofday(&tv);
-
-	return (((__u64)tv.tv_sec) * 1000000) + tv.tv_usec;
+	 * identifies this particular instance of the socknal.
+	 */
+	return ktime_get_ns();
 }
 
 static int