linux-kernel - [PATCH 01/10] ceph: honor AT_STATX_DONT

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Message-Id: <1505896805-12055-2-git-send-email-mszeredi@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:39:56 +0200
From:   Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
To:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>,
        "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@...hat.com>, Sage Weil <sage@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 01/10] ceph: honor AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC

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@...hat.com>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>
Cc: "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@...hat.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@...hat.com>
---
 fs/ceph/inode.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ceph/inode.c b/fs/ceph/inode.c
index 373dab5173ca..723002f6b060 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/inode.c
@@ -2201,9 +2201,11 @@ int ceph_getattr(const struct path *path, struct kstat *stat,
 {
 	struct inode *inode = d_inode(path->dentry);
 	struct ceph_inode_info *ci = ceph_inode(inode);
-	int err;
+	int err = 0;
+
+	if (!(flags & AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC))
+		err = ceph_do_getattr(inode, CEPH_STAT_CAP_INODE_ALL, false);
 
-	err = ceph_do_getattr(inode, CEPH_STAT_CAP_INODE_ALL, false);
 	if (!err) {
 		generic_fillattr(inode, stat);
 		stat->ino = ceph_translate_ino(inode->i_sb, inode->i_ino);
-- 
2.5.5