[PATCH-v5 2/5] vfs: don't let the dirty time inodes get more than a day stale

[Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

Guarantee that the on-disk timestamps will be no more than 24 hours
stale.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
---
 fs/fs-writeback.c  |  1 +
 fs/inode.c         | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/fs.h |  1 +
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 518f3bb..15dec84 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -1147,6 +1147,7 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode, int flags)
 	if (flags & (I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) {
 		trace_writeback_dirty_inode_start(inode, flags);
 
+		inode->i_ts_dirty_day = 0;
 		if (sb->s_op->dirty_inode)
 			sb->s_op->dirty_inode(inode, flags);
 
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 1ec0629..84a5a3d 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1507,6 +1507,9 @@ static int relatime_need_update(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct inode *inode,
  */
 static int update_time(struct inode *inode, struct timespec *time, int flags)
 {
+	struct timespec uptime;
+	unsigned short days_since_boot;
+
 	if (inode->i_op->update_time)
 		return inode->i_op->update_time(inode, time, flags);
 
@@ -1524,6 +1527,22 @@ static int update_time(struct inode *inode, struct timespec *time, int flags)
 	    !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_WB)) {
 		if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME)
 			return 0;
+		get_monotonic_boottime(&uptime);
+		days_since_boot = div_u64(uptime.tv_sec, 86400);
+		/*
+		 * If i_ts_dirty_day is zero, then either we have not
+		 * deferred timestamp updates, or the system has been
+		 * up for less than a day (so days_since_boot is
+		 * zero), so we can defer timestamp updates in that
+		 * case.  If a day or more has passed, then
+		 * i_ts_dirty_day will be different from
+		 * days_since_boot, and then we should update the
+		 * on-disk inode and then we can clear i_ts_dirty_day.
+		 */
+		if (inode->i_ts_dirty_day &&
+		    (inode->i_ts_dirty_day != days_since_boot))
+			goto force_dirty;
+
 		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 		if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_WB) {
 			spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
@@ -1534,6 +1553,7 @@ static int update_time(struct inode *inode, struct timespec *time, int flags)
 			return 0;
 		}
 		inode->i_state |= I_DIRTY_TIME;
+		inode->i_ts_dirty_day = days_since_boot;
 		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 		inode_requeue_dirtytime(inode);
 		return 0;
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 7932482..2b86b5d 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -575,6 +575,7 @@ struct inode {
 	struct timespec		i_ctime;
 	spinlock_t		i_lock;	/* i_blocks, i_bytes, maybe i_size */
 	unsigned short          i_bytes;
+	unsigned short		i_ts_dirty_day;
 	unsigned int		i_blkbits;
 	blkcnt_t		i_blocks;
 
-- 
2.1.0