Use the flag I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED passed to dirty_inode() to signal to the file system that it is time to flush the inode's timestamps to stable storage. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 867454997c9d..32101349ba97 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc) /* This was a lazytime expiration; we need to tell the file system */ if (dirty & I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED && inode->i_sb->s_op->dirty_inode) - inode->i_sb->s_op->dirty_inode(inode, I_DIRTY_SYNC); + inode->i_sb->s_op->dirty_inode(inode, I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED); /* Don't write the inode if only I_DIRTY_PAGES was set */ if (dirty & ~I_DIRTY_PAGES) { int err = write_inode(inode, wbc); diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c index 2094386af8ac..f27b9b205f81 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c @@ -622,7 +622,8 @@ xfs_fs_dirty_inode( if (!(inode->i_sb->s_flags & SB_LAZYTIME)) return; - if (flag != I_DIRTY_SYNC || !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME)) + if ((flag != I_DIRTY_SYNC && flag != I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED) || + !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME)) return; if (xfs_trans_alloc(mp, &M_RES(mp)->tr_fsyncts, 0, 0, 0, &tp)) -- 2.24.1