linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/79] s390: switch to new ctime accessors

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Date:   Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:51:33 -0400
From:   Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
To:     Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/79] s390: switch to new ctime accessors

On Thu, 2023-06-22 at 19:35 +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 10:45:16AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> > In later patches, we're going to change how the ctime.tv_nsec field is
> > utilized. Switch to using accessor functions instead of raw accesses of
> > inode->i_ctime.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c b/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c
> > index ee919bfc8186..30fa336ec63e 100644
> > --- a/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c
> > +++ b/arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c
> > @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static void hypfs_update_update(struct super_block *sb)
> >  	struct inode *inode = d_inode(sb_info->update_file);
> >  
> >  	sb_info->last_update = ktime_get_seconds();
> > -	inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = current_time(inode);
> > +	inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode_ctime_set_current(inode);
> >  }
> >  
> >  /* directory tree removal functions */
> > @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static struct inode *hypfs_make_inode(struct super_block *sb, umode_t mode)
> >  		ret->i_mode = mode;
> >  		ret->i_uid = hypfs_info->uid;
> >  		ret->i_gid = hypfs_info->gid;
> > -		ret->i_atime = ret->i_mtime = ret->i_ctime = current_time(ret);
> > +		ret->i_atime = ret->i_mtime = inode_ctime_set_current(ret);
> >  		if (S_ISDIR(mode))
> >  			set_nlink(ret, 2);
> >  	}
> 
> I guess, inode_set_ctime() called from inode_ctime_set_current()
> updates i_ctime and is part of some other series?
> 

No, that gets added in patch #1 of this series.

You should have gotten cc'ed on that one, though the postings to vger
mailing lists of patches 1, 2, and 79 bounced because the mail header
length on those was >8k.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>