Re: [PATCH 11/11] xfs: enable non-blocking timestamp updates

Chaitanya Kulkarni
2025-12-23T05:39:07Z

On 12/22/25 16:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The lazytime path using the generic helpers can never block in XFS
> because there is no ->dirty_inode method that could block. Allow
> non-blocking timestamp updates for this case by replacing
> generic_update_time with the open coded version without the S_NOWAIT
> check.
>
> Fixes: 66fa3cedf16a ("fs: Add async write file modification handling.")
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig<hch@lst.de>
> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton<jlayton@kernel.org>

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>

-ck