Thank you to Xavier Roche for his tmpfs file creation time patch. Please apply these 3 tweaks on top (and fold in when sending to Linus): 1. Move vfs_inode back to being last element of shmem_inode_info. 2. Remove unnecessary parentheses from condition in shmem_getattr(). 3. Using shmem_getattr() on other file types than regular requires that shmem_is_huge() check type, to stop incorrect HPAGE_PMD_SIZE blksize. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Cleanups and fix to tmpfs-support-for-file-creation-time.patch include/linux/shmem_fs.h | 2 +- mm/shmem.c | 7 +++---- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- mmotm/include/linux/shmem_fs.h +++ linux/include/linux/shmem_fs.h @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ struct shmem_inode_info { struct shared_policy policy; /* NUMA memory alloc policy */ struct simple_xattrs xattrs; /* list of xattrs */ atomic_t stop_eviction; /* hold when working on inode */ - struct inode vfs_inode; struct timespec64 i_crtime; /* file creation time */ + struct inode vfs_inode; }; struct shmem_sb_info { --- mmotm/mm/shmem.c +++ linux/mm/shmem.c @@ -476,6 +476,8 @@ bool shmem_is_huge(struct vm_area_struct { loff_t i_size; + if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) + return false; if (shmem_huge == SHMEM_HUGE_DENY) return false; if (vma && ((vma->vm_flags & VM_NOHUGEPAGE) || @@ -1061,7 +1063,7 @@ static int shmem_getattr(struct user_nam if (shmem_is_huge(NULL, inode, 0)) stat->blksize = HPAGE_PMD_SIZE; - if ((request_mask & STATX_BTIME)) { + if (request_mask & STATX_BTIME) { stat->result_mask |= STATX_BTIME; stat->btime.tv_sec = info->i_crtime.tv_sec; stat->btime.tv_nsec = info->i_crtime.tv_nsec; @@ -1860,9 +1862,6 @@ repeat: return 0; } - /* Never use a huge page for shmem_symlink() */ - if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) - goto alloc_nohuge; if (!shmem_is_huge(vma, inode, index)) goto alloc_nohuge;