relatime also updates atime if the previous atime is equal to one or both of the ctime and mtime; a non-strict interpretation of "earlier than" and "younger than" in the comments allows this, but for clarity, this makes it explicit. Pointed out by "epiii2" and "ctrl-alt-delor" in https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/740862/86440. Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@xxxxxxx> --- fs/inode.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 4558dc2f1355..3ec5a8f7b644 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -1804,8 +1804,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bmap); /* * With relative atime, only update atime if the previous atime is - * earlier than either the ctime or mtime or if at least a day has - * passed since the last atime update. + * earlier than or equal to either the ctime or mtime, + * or if at least a day has passed since the last atime update. */ static int relatime_need_update(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct inode *inode, struct timespec64 now) @@ -1814,12 +1814,12 @@ static int relatime_need_update(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct inode *inode, if (!(mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_RELATIME)) return 1; /* - * Is mtime younger than atime? If yes, update atime: + * Is mtime younger than or equal to atime? If yes, update atime: */ if (timespec64_compare(&inode->i_mtime, &inode->i_atime) >= 0) return 1; /* - * Is ctime younger than atime? If yes, update atime: + * Is ctime younger than or equal to atime? If yes, update atime: */ if (timespec64_compare(&inode->i_ctime, &inode->i_atime) >= 0) return 1; base-commit: 65aca32efdcb0965502d3db2f1fa33838c070952 -- 2.30.2
