v5: don't try to expose i_version to userland (yet) use getattr to get i_version in nfsd take inode lock when getting i_version This set is a bit different from the earlier ones. In particular, it does not try to expose i_version to userland. STATX_INO_VERSION is added as a kernel-only symbol (for now), and the infrastructure is changed around to use it. This allows us to fetch the i_version during the getattr operation, and eliminate the fetch_iversion export operation. This is a much more natual way to handle the i_version counter in nfsd and, as a bonus, this should allow nfsd to use ceph's i_version counter too. Huzzah! The first two patches fix up ext4's i_version handling and enable it unconditionally. Those can go in independently of the rest, IMO. Ted, if you're ok with those and want to pick them up then that would be great. The rest of the patches clean up the i_version handling, but should not change the userland API at all. This should make it very simple to expose i_version to userland in the future if we decide to do so. Maybe we should take these in via the nfsd tree? I'm not sure here. The last patch should be considered an RFC. I think that that approach should prevent the potential race, without adding new work in the write codepath. Jeff Layton (8): iversion: clarify when the i_version counter must be updated ext4: fix i_version handling in ext4 ext4: unconditionally enable the i_version counter vfs: plumb i_version handling into struct kstat nfs: report the inode version in getattr if requested ceph: report the inode version in getattr if requested nfsd: use the getattr operation to fetch i_version nfsd: take inode_lock when querying for NFSv4 GETATTR fs/ceph/inode.c | 14 +++++++++----- fs/ext4/inode.c | 15 +++++---------- fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 4 ++++ fs/ext4/move_extent.c | 6 ++++++ fs/ext4/super.c | 13 ++++--------- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 1 + fs/nfs/export.c | 7 ------- fs/nfs/inode.c | 7 +++++-- fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++- fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c | 6 ++++++ fs/nfsd/nfsfh.h | 9 ++++----- fs/nfsd/vfs.h | 7 ++++++- fs/stat.c | 14 +++++++++++++- include/linux/exportfs.h | 1 - include/linux/iversion.h | 10 ++++++++-- include/linux/stat.h | 4 ++++ 16 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) -- 2.37.3