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authorJosef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>2012-03-26 09:59:21 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-06-01 12:07:25 -0400
commitc3b2da314834499f34cba94f7053e55f6d6f92d8 (patch)
tree7012b569ee9e0781761a8eb388190979441583c7 /fs/inode.c
parent033369d1af1264abc23bea2e174aa47cdd212f6f (diff)
downloadlinux-c3b2da314834499f34cba94f7053e55f6d6f92d8.tar.bz2
fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time
Btrfs has to make sure we have space to allocate new blocks in order to modify the inode, so updating time can fail. We've gotten around this by having our own file_update_time but this is kind of a pain, and Christoph has indicated he would like to make xfs do something different with atime updates. So introduce ->update_time, where we will deal with i_version an a/m/c time updates and indicate which changes need to be made. The normal version just does what it has always done, updates the time and marks the inode dirty, and then filesystems can choose to do something different. I've gone through all of the users of file_update_time and made them check for errors with the exception of the fault code since it's complicated and I wasn't quite sure what to do there, also Jan is going to be pushing the file time updates into page_mkwrite for those who have it so that should satisfy btrfs and make it not a big deal to check the file_update_time() return code in the generic fault path. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/inode.c56
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index a79555e492e0..f0335fc315ed 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1487,6 +1487,27 @@ static int relatime_need_update(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct inode *inode,
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * This does the actual work of updating an inodes time or version. Must have
+ * had called mnt_want_write() before calling this.
+ */
+static int update_time(struct inode *inode, struct timespec *time, int flags)
+{
+ if (inode->i_op->update_time)
+ return inode->i_op->update_time(inode, time, flags);
+
+ if (flags & S_ATIME)
+ inode->i_atime = *time;
+ if (flags & S_VERSION)
+ inode_inc_iversion(inode);
+ if (flags & S_CTIME)
+ inode->i_ctime = *time;
+ if (flags & S_MTIME)
+ inode->i_mtime = *time;
+ mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
+ return 0;
+}
+
/**
* touch_atime - update the access time
* @path: the &struct path to update
@@ -1524,8 +1545,14 @@ void touch_atime(struct path *path)
if (mnt_want_write(mnt))
return;
- inode->i_atime = now;
- mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
+ /*
+ * File systems can error out when updating inodes if they need to
+ * allocate new space to modify an inode (such is the case for
+ * Btrfs), but since we touch atime while walking down the path we
+ * really don't care if we failed to update the atime of the file,
+ * so just ignore the return value.
+ */
+ update_time(inode, &now, S_ATIME);
mnt_drop_write(mnt);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(touch_atime);
@@ -1604,18 +1631,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_remove_suid);
* usage in the file write path of filesystems, and filesystems may
* choose to explicitly ignore update via this function with the
* S_NOCMTIME inode flag, e.g. for network filesystem where these
- * timestamps are handled by the server.
+ * timestamps are handled by the server. This can return an error for
+ * file systems who need to allocate space in order to update an inode.
*/
-void file_update_time(struct file *file)
+int file_update_time(struct file *file)
{
struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
struct timespec now;
- enum { S_MTIME = 1, S_CTIME = 2, S_VERSION = 4 } sync_it = 0;
+ int sync_it = 0;
+ int ret;
/* First try to exhaust all avenues to not sync */
if (IS_NOCMTIME(inode))
- return;
+ return 0;
now = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb);
if (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_mtime, &now))
@@ -1628,21 +1657,16 @@ void file_update_time(struct file *file)
sync_it |= S_VERSION;
if (!sync_it)
- return;
+ return 0;
/* Finally allowed to write? Takes lock. */
if (mnt_want_write_file(file))
- return;
+ return 0;
- /* Only change inode inside the lock region */
- if (sync_it & S_VERSION)
- inode_inc_iversion(inode);
- if (sync_it & S_CTIME)
- inode->i_ctime = now;
- if (sync_it & S_MTIME)
- inode->i_mtime = now;
- mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
+ ret = update_time(inode, &now, sync_it);
mnt_drop_write_file(file);
+
+ return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_update_time);