shmem: use monotonic time for i_generation
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 22:45:09 +0000 (15:45 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 23:20:28 +0000 (16:20 -0700)
commit46c9a946d766fa830a85d6599de5891fe9e717d2
tree2ebec8c8aaa86693b0b94da193650d0bb8b0d8ca
parentd6a24df00638a09abd8fb99bdb5a1c7fdd536e59
shmem: use monotonic time for i_generation

get_seconds() is deprecated because it will lead to a 32-bit overflow in
2038 or 2106.  We don't need the i_generation to be strictly monotonic
anyway, and other file systems like ext4 and xfs just use prandom_u32(),
so let's use the same one here.

If this is considered too slow, we could also use ktime_get_seconds() or
ktime_get_real_seconds() to keep the previous behavior.  Both of these
return a time64_t and are not deprecated, but only return a unique value
once per second, and are predictable.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180620082556.581543-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/shmem.c