![]() ![]() Spreading the LoadĪs chronicled on lwn.net, it turned out to take a bit longer. In a team effort, John started rewriting the core timekeeping support of the kernel, working his way out, while I would work my way down from the outside, starting with file systems and then system calls and device drivers with the goal of getting this done by the end of the year. While both John Stultz and I had been thinking about and prototyping partial solutions even earlier, the year 2014 is when we started discussing more openly in Linaro and the wider kernel community about what needed to happen. With the linux-5.6 merge window, a project ends that has kept me busy for nearly six years: preventing the “Epochalypse” by changing every single instance of a 32-bit time_t in the kernel to a type that does not roll over on. ![]()
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