ALSA: seq_timer: use monotonic times internally
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 15:10:32 +0000 (17:10 +0200)
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Fri, 17 Jun 2016 20:56:13 +0000 (22:56 +0200)
commit3915bf2946520ace5bcc8104717a3cb0452d7430
tree031c5d4fa69ee97585d8c0aa8b8ad163b06dee21
parentd169133889090903d9feb968deb9fa01240a58f5
ALSA: seq_timer: use monotonic times internally

The sequencer client manager reports timestamps in units of unsigned
32-bit seconds/nanoseconds, but that does not suffer from the y2038
overflow because it stores only the delta since the 'last_update'
time was recorded.

However, the use of the do_gettimeofday() function is problematic
and we have to replace it to avoid the overflow on on 32-bit
architectures.

This uses 'struct timespec64' to record 'last_update', and changes
the code to use monotonic timestamps that do not suffer from leap
seconds and settimeofday updates.

As a side-effect, the code can now use the timespec64_sub() helper
and become more readable and also avoid a multiplication to convert
from microseconds to nanoseconds.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c
sound/core/seq/seq_timer.h