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Message-ID: <99b3c749-23d9-6f09-fb75-6a84f3d1b066@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 09:46:12 +0900
From: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/79] fs: add ctime accessors infrastructure

On 6/21/23 23:45, Jeff Layton wrote:
> struct timespec64 has unused bits in the tv_nsec field that can be used
> for other purposes. In future patches, we're going to change how the
> inode->i_ctime is accessed in certain inodes in order to make use of
> them. In order to do that safely though, we'll need to eradicate raw
> accesses of the inode->i_ctime field from the kernel.
> 
> Add new accessor functions for the ctime that we can use to replace them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>

[...]

> +/**
> + * inode_ctime_peek - fetch the current ctime from the inode
> + * @inode: inode from which to fetch ctime
> + *
> + * Grab the current ctime from the inode and return it.
> + */
> +static inline struct timespec64 inode_ctime_peek(const struct inode *inode)

To be consistent with inode_ctime_set(), why not call this one inode_ctime_get()
? Also, inode_set_ctime() & inode_get_ctime() may be a little more natural. But
no strong opinion about that though.

-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research


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