From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>,
Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>,
Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>, Stefan Roesch <shr@fb.com>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, gfs2@lists.linux.dev,
io-uring@vger.kernel.org, devel@lists.orangefs.org,
linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 12/16] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:47:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251120064859.2911749-13-hch@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251120064859.2911749-1-hch@lst.de>
Centralize how we synchronize a lazytime update into the actual on-disk
timestamp into a single helper.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
---
fs/fs-writeback.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++----------
fs/inode.c | 5 +----
fs/internal.h | 3 ++-
fs/sync.c | 4 ++--
include/trace/events/writeback.h | 6 ------
5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index a115e26e0139..50e58cf399b8 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -1693,6 +1693,16 @@ static void requeue_inode(struct inode *inode, struct bdi_writeback *wb,
}
}
+bool sync_lazytime(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME))
+ return false;
+
+ trace_writeback_lazytime(inode);
+ mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
+ return true;
+}
+
/*
* Write out an inode and its dirty pages (or some of its dirty pages, depending
* on @wbc->nr_to_write), and clear the relevant dirty flags from i_state.
@@ -1732,17 +1742,14 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
}
/*
- * If the inode has dirty timestamps and we need to write them, call
- * mark_inode_dirty_sync() to notify the filesystem about it and to
- * change I_DIRTY_TIME into I_DIRTY_SYNC.
+ * For data integrity writeback, or when the dirty interval expired,
+ * ask the file system to propagata lazy timestamp updates into real
+ * dirty state.
*/
- if ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME) &&
- (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL ||
- time_after(jiffies, inode->dirtied_time_when +
- dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ))) {
- trace_writeback_lazytime(inode);
- mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
- }
+ if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL ||
+ time_after(jiffies, inode->dirtied_time_when +
+ dirtytime_expire_interval * HZ))
+ sync_lazytime(inode);
/*
* Get and clear the dirty flags from i_state. This needs to be done
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 5b338de7a4c6..156a5fb50c7e 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1942,11 +1942,8 @@ void iput(struct inode *inode)
if (atomic_add_unless(&inode->i_count, -1, 1))
return;
- if ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME) && inode->i_nlink) {
- trace_writeback_lazytime_iput(inode);
- mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
+ if (inode->i_nlink && sync_lazytime(inode))
goto retry;
- }
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
if (unlikely((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME) && inode->i_nlink)) {
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 9b2b4d116880..da6e62f1183f 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -211,7 +211,8 @@ bool in_group_or_capable(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
/*
* fs-writeback.c
*/
-extern long get_nr_dirty_inodes(void);
+long get_nr_dirty_inodes(void);
+bool sync_lazytime(struct inode *inode);
/*
* dcache.c
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index 2955cd4c77a3..a86395e266b1 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ int vfs_fsync_range(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
if (!file->f_op->fsync)
return -EINVAL;
- if (!datasync && (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME))
- mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
+ if (!datasync)
+ sync_lazytime(inode);
return file->f_op->fsync(file, start, end, datasync);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_fsync_range);
diff --git a/include/trace/events/writeback.h b/include/trace/events/writeback.h
index c08aff044e80..75eae86798ba 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/writeback.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/writeback.h
@@ -856,12 +856,6 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_inode_template, writeback_lazytime,
TP_ARGS(inode)
);
-DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_inode_template, writeback_lazytime_iput,
- TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode),
-
- TP_ARGS(inode)
-);
-
DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_inode_template, writeback_dirty_inode_enqueue,
TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode),
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-20 6:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-20 6:47 re-enable IOCB_NOWAIT writes to files v2 Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 01/16] fs: refactor file timestamp update logic Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 02/16] fs: lift the FMODE_NOCMTIME check into file_update_time_flags Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 03/16] fs: export vfs_utimes Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 04/16] btrfs: use vfs_utimes to update file timestamps Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 05/16] btrfs: fix the comment on btrfs_update_time Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 06/16] orangefs: use inode_update_timestamps directly Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 07/16] fs: remove inode_update_time Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 08/16] fs: allow error returns from generic_update_time Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 09/16] fs: exit early in generic_update_time when there is no work Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 13:32 ` Jeff Layton
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 10/16] fs: factor out a mark_inode_dirty_time helper Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 11/16] fs: allow error returns from inode_update_timestamps Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 14:01 ` Jeff Layton
2025-11-20 6:47 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 13/16] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 14/16] fs: add support for non-blocking timestamp updates Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 15/16] xfs: implement ->sync_lazytime Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 16/16] xfs: enable non-blocking timestamp updates Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-20 14:16 ` Jeff Layton
2025-11-25 9:18 ` re-enable IOCB_NOWAIT writes to files v2 Christian Brauner
2025-11-25 11:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-26 13:51 ` (subset) " Christian Brauner
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