linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/14] fs: factor out a mark_inode_dirty

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Message-ID: <20251124140746.GA14417@lst.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:07:46 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
	Mike Marshall <hubcap@...ibond.com>,
	Martin Brandenburg <martin@...ibond.com>,
	Carlos Maiolino <cem@...nel.org>, Stefan Roesch <shr@...com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, gfs2@...ts.linux.dev,
	io-uring@...r.kernel.org, devel@...ts.orangefs.org,
	linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/14] fs: factor out a mark_inode_dirty_time helper

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 02:22:59PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> What I find a bit concerning here is that mark_inode_dirty_time() takes a
> different kind of flags than __mark_inode_dirty() so it's relatively easy
> to confuse. Proper typing of 'flags' would be nice here but it's a bit
> cumbersome to do in C so I'm not sure if it's worth it for this relatively
> limited use. So I guess feel free to add:

Adding a __bitwise annotation for the S_ flags seems easy enough
as there's not a whole lot of variables/arguments of that time.  I can
do that as a follow-on.