Do you have any sample program/code to query with this flag?
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:39 AM, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The description of this flag says "Don't sync attributes with the server".
> In other words: always use the attributes cached in the kernel and don't
> send network or local messages to refresh the attributes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/cifs/inode.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++--------------
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
> index a8693632235f..982ba2e4f549 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
> @@ -2003,22 +2003,24 @@ int cifs_getattr(const struct path *path, struct kstat *stat,
> struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);
> int rc;
>
> - /*
> - * We need to be sure that all dirty pages are written and the server
> - * has actual ctime, mtime and file length.
> - */
> - if (!CIFS_CACHE_READ(CIFS_I(inode)) && inode->i_mapping &&
> - inode->i_mapping->nrpages != 0) {
> - rc = filemap_fdatawait(inode->i_mapping);
> - if (rc) {
> - mapping_set_error(inode->i_mapping, rc);
> - return rc;
> + if (!(flags & AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC)) {
> + /*
> + * We need to be sure that all dirty pages are written and the
> + * server has actual ctime, mtime and file length.
> + */
> + if (!CIFS_CACHE_READ(CIFS_I(inode)) && inode->i_mapping &&
> + inode->i_mapping->nrpages != 0) {
> + rc = filemap_fdatawait(inode->i_mapping);
> + if (rc) {
> + mapping_set_error(inode->i_mapping, rc);
> + return rc;
> + }
> }
> - }
>
> - rc = cifs_revalidate_dentry_attr(dentry);
> - if (rc)
> - return rc;
> + rc = cifs_revalidate_dentry_attr(dentry);
> + if (rc)
> + return rc;
> + }
>
> generic_fillattr(inode, stat);
> stat->blksize = CIFS_MAX_MSGSIZE;
> --
> 2.5.5
>
--
Thanks,
Steve
