On 2025-11-02 09:36:22+0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 03:46:21PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2025, at 17:02, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > >
> > > +struct timespec {
> > > + time_t tv_sec;
> > > + long tv_nsec;
> > > +};
> > > +#define _STRUCT_TIMESPEC
> > > +
> > > +#include <linux/time.h>
> >
> > Unfortunately this is not the definition we want on big-endian
> > systems because it puts the tv_nsec field in the wrong place.
>
> Indeed!
>
> > You can either uses the simple (non-POSIX) __kernel_timespec
> > definition in nolibc with a 64-bit tv_nsec, or copy the more
> > complicated definition with explicit padding that is used
> > in musl and glibc.
>
> I think that switching this patch and the next one (10/12) would
> just do the trick since both fields will become __kernel_time64_t.
> Or maybe the two should be squashed into a single one.
Maybe I can make it clearer that this patch does not change anything.
This custom definition of 'struct timespec' is the same as the one we
got from linux/time.h before. This is just a preparation for the next
commit. Merging would also work, but it will be a bit messy to look at.
Thomas
