Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] time: widen wallclock seconds to 64 bits

2015-02-02 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 02.02.15 at 15:40, wrote: > On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 15:39 +, Jan Beulich wrote: >>[...] >> A note on the conditional suppressing the xen_wc_sec_hi helper macro >> definition in the ix86 case for hypervisor and tools: Neither of the >> two actually need this, and its presence causes the to

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] time: widen wallclock seconds to 64 bits

2015-02-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 15:39 +, Jan Beulich wrote: > Linux is in the process of converting their seconds representation to > 64 bits, so in order to support it consistently we should follow suit > (which at some point in quite a few years we'd have to do anyway). To > represent this in struct sh

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] time: widen wallclock seconds to 64 bits

2015-01-30 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 29/01/15 15:39, Jan Beulich wrote: > Linux is in the process of converting their seconds representation to > 64 bits, so in order to support it consistently we should follow suit > (which at some point in quite a few years we'd have to do anyway). To > represent this in struct shared_info we lev

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] time: widen wallclock seconds to 64 bits

2015-01-29 Thread Daniel De Graaf
On 01/29/2015 10:39 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: Linux is in the process of converting their seconds representation to 64 bits, so in order to support it consistently we should follow suit (which at some point in quite a few years we'd have to do anyway). To represent this in struct shared_info we leve

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] time: widen wallclock seconds to 64 bits

2015-01-29 Thread Tim Deegan
At 15:39 + on 29 Jan (1422542343), Jan Beulich wrote: > Linux is in the process of converting their seconds representation to > 64 bits, so in order to support it consistently we should follow suit > (which at some point in quite a few years we'd have to do anyway). To > represent this in struc

[Xen-devel] [PATCH] time: widen wallclock seconds to 64 bits

2015-01-29 Thread Jan Beulich
Linux is in the process of converting their seconds representation to 64 bits, so in order to support it consistently we should follow suit (which at some point in quite a few years we'd have to do anyway). To represent this in struct shared_info we leverage a 32-bit hole in x86-64's and arm's vari