linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH-v4 1/7] vfs: split update_time() into update_time() and write

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Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2014 07:25:04 -0800
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Linux Filesystem Development List 
	<linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux btrfs Developers List <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	XFS Developers <xfs@....sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-v4 1/7] vfs: split update_time() into update_time() and
 write_time()

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 01:34:29PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>   But Ted changed XFS to copy timestamps to on-disk structure from the
> in-memory inode fields after VFS updated the timestamps. So the stamps
> should be coherent AFAICT, shouldn't they?

Not coherent enough.  We need the XFS ilock to synchronize reading from
and writing to the time stamps.  update_time() only has i_mutex, which
we can't take for the transaction commit path.
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