Hello! On Tue 12-01-21 11:02:42, Eric Biggers wrote: > Patch 1 fixes a bug in how __writeback_single_inode() handles lazytime > expirations. I originally reported this last year > (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200306004555.GB225345@xxxxxxxxx) because it > causes the FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl to not work properly, as > the bug causes inodes to remain dirty after a sync. > > It also turns out that lazytime on XFS is partially broken because it > doesn't actually write timestamps to disk after a sync() or after > dirtytime_expire_interval. This is fixed by the same fix. > > This supersedes previously proposed fixes, including > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200307020043.60118-1-tytso@xxxxxxx and > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200325122825.1086872-3-hch@xxxxxx from last > year (which had some issues and didn't fix the XFS bug), and v1 of this > patchset which took a different approach > (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105005452.92521-1-ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx). > > Patches 2-11 then clean up various things related to lazytime and > writeback, such as clarifying the semantics of ->dirty_inode() and the > inode dirty flags, and improving comments. > > This patchset applies to v5.11-rc2. Thanks for the patches. I've picked the patches to my tree. I plan to push patch 1/11 to Linus later this week, the rest of the cleanups will go to him during the next merge window. Honza > > Changed v2 => v3: > - Changed ext4 patch to add a helper function > inode_is_dirtytime_only() to include/linux/fs.h. > - Dropped XFS cleanup patch, as it can be sent/applied separately. > - Added Reviewed-by's. > > Changed v1 => v2: > - Switched to the fix suggested by Jan Kara, and dropped the > patches which introduced ->lazytime_expired(). > - Fixed bugs in the fat and ext4 patches. > - Added patch "fs: improve comments for writeback_single_inode()". > - Reordered the patches a bit. > - Added Reviewed-by's. > > Eric Biggers (11): > fs: fix lazytime expiration handling in __writeback_single_inode() > fs: correctly document the inode dirty flags > fs: only specify I_DIRTY_TIME when needed in generic_update_time() > fat: only specify I_DIRTY_TIME when needed in fat_update_time() > fs: don't call ->dirty_inode for lazytime timestamp updates > fs: pass only I_DIRTY_INODE flags to ->dirty_inode > fs: clean up __mark_inode_dirty() a bit > fs: drop redundant check from __writeback_single_inode() > fs: improve comments for writeback_single_inode() > gfs2: don't worry about I_DIRTY_TIME in gfs2_fsync() > ext4: simplify i_state checks in __ext4_update_other_inode_time() > > Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst | 5 +- > fs/ext4/inode.c | 20 +---- > fs/f2fs/super.c | 3 - > fs/fat/misc.c | 23 +++--- > fs/fs-writeback.c | 132 +++++++++++++++++------------- > fs/gfs2/file.c | 4 +- > fs/gfs2/super.c | 2 - > fs/inode.c | 38 +++++---- > include/linux/fs.h | 33 ++++++-- > 9 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-) > > > base-commit: e71ba9452f0b5b2e8dc8aa5445198cd9214a6a62 > -- > 2.30.0 > -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
