The input events use struct timeval to store event time, unfortunately
this structure is not y2038 safe and is being replaced in kernel with
y2038 safe structures.
Because of ABI concerns we can not change the size or the layout of
structure input_event, so we opt to re-interpreting the 'seconds' part
of timestamp as an unsigned value, effectively doubling the range of
values, to year 2106.
Newer glibc that has support for 32 bit applications to use 64 bit
time_t supplies __USE_TIME_BITS64 define [1], that we can use to present
the userspace with updated input_event layout. The updated layout will
cause the compile time breakage, alerting applications and distributions
maintainers to the issue. Existing 32 binaries will continue working
without any changes until 2038.
Ultimately userspace applications should switch to using monotonic or
boot time clocks, as realtime clock is not very well suited for input
event timestamps as it can go backwards (see a80b83b7b8 "Input: evdev -
add CLOCK_BOOTTIME support" by by John Stultz). With monotonic clock the
practical range of reported times will always fit into the pair of 32
bit values, as we do not expect any system to stay up for a hundred
years without a single reboot.
[1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Y2038ProofnessDesign
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Patchwork-Id: 10148083
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
INPUT_COMPAT_TEST became much simpler after commit f4056b5284
("input: redefine INPUT_COMPAT_TEST as in_compat_syscall()") so we can
cleanly eliminate it altogether.
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The input compat code should work like all other compat code: for 32-bit
syscalls, use the 32-bit ABI and for 64-bit syscalls, use the 64-bit
ABI. We have a helper for that (in_compat_syscall()): just use it.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Enable the input system to be used with a compat ABI with 64-bit time.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
This support was partially present in the existing code (look for
"__tilegx__" ifdefs) but with this change you can build a working
kernel using the TILE-Gx toolchain and ARCH=tilegx.
Most of these files are new, generally adding a foo_64.c file
where previously there was just a foo_32.c file.
The ARCH=tilegx directive redirects to arch/tile, not arch/tilegx,
using the existing SRCARCH mechanism in the top-level Makefile.
Changes to existing files:
- <asm/bitops.h> and <asm/bitops_32.h> changed to factor the
include of <asm-generic/bitops/non-atomic.h> in the common header.
- <asm/compat.h> and arch/tile/kernel/compat.c changed to remove
the "const" markers I had put on compat_sys_execve() when trying
to match some recent similar changes to the non-compat execve.
It turns out the compat version wasn't "upgraded" to use const.
- <asm/opcode-tile_64.h> and <asm/opcode_constants_64.h> were
previously included accidentally, with the 32-bit contents. Now
they have the proper 64-bit contents.
Finally, I had to hack the existing hacky drivers/input/input-compat.h
to add yet another "#ifdef" for INPUT_COMPAT_TEST (same as x86_64).
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> [drivers/input]
This has been broken since May 2008 when Al Viro killed altroot support.
Since nobody has complained, it would appear that there are no users of
this code (A plausible theory since the main OSVs that support ia64 prefer
to use the IA32-EL software emulation).
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Currently, evdev has working 32bit compatibility and uinput does not. uinput
needs the input_event code that evdev uses, so let's refactor it so it can
be shared.
[dtor@mail.ru: add fix for force feedback compat issues]
Signed-off-by: Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
