From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx192.postini.com [74.125.245.192]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C4B86B005A for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 03:29:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 03:29:33 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: Update file times when inodes are written after mmaped writes Message-ID: <20121222082933.GA26477@infradead.org> References: <6b22b806806b21af02b70a2fa860a9d10304fc16.1356124965.git.luto@amacapital.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6b22b806806b21af02b70a2fa860a9d10304fc16.1356124965.git.luto@amacapital.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux FS Devel , Dave Chinner , Jan Kara , Al Viro NAK, we went through great trouble to get rid of the nasty layering violation where the VM called file_update_time directly just a short while ago, reintroducing that is a massive step back. Make sure whatever "solution" for your problem you come up with keeps the file update in the filesystem or generic helpers. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org