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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] fs: turn inode ctime fields into a single ktime_t
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 08:12:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZoQY4jdTc5dHPGGG@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a11d84a3085c6a6920d086bf8fae1625ceff5764.camel@kernel.org>

On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 08:21:42AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Many of the existing callers of inode_ctime_to_ts are in void return
> functions. They're just copying data from an internal representation to
> struct inode and assume it always succeeds. For those we'll probably
> have to catch bad ctime values earlier.
> 
> So, I think I'll probably have to roll bespoke error handling in all of
> the relevant filesystems if we go this route. There are also
> differences between filesystems -- does it make sense to refuse to load
> an inode with a bogus ctime on NFS or AFS? Probably not.
> 
> Hell, it may be simpler to just ditch this patch and reimplement
> mgtimes using the nanosecond fields like the earlier versions did.

Thatdoes for sure sound simpler.  What is the big advantage of the
ktime_t?  Smaller size?



  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-02 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-27  1:00 [PATCH 00/10] fs: multigrain timestamp redux Jeff Layton
2024-06-27  1:00 ` [PATCH 01/10] fs: turn inode ctime fields into a single ktime_t Jeff Layton
2024-07-01 22:49   ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-07-02  0:22     ` Jeff Layton
2024-07-02  7:37       ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-02  9:56         ` Jeff Layton
2024-07-02 10:19           ` Jan Kara
2024-07-02 11:42             ` Christian Brauner
2024-07-02 11:44             ` Jeff Layton
2024-07-02 12:04               ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-02 12:09                 ` Jeff Layton
2024-07-02 12:15                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-02 12:21                     ` Jeff Layton
2024-07-02 15:12                       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-07-02 15:58                         ` Jeff Layton
2024-07-03  5:26                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-03  5:27                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-02 16:18                       ` Christian Brauner
2024-06-27  1:00 ` [PATCH 02/10] fs: uninline inode_get_ctime and inode_set_ctime_to_ts Jeff Layton
2024-06-27  1:00 ` [PATCH 03/10] fs: tracepoints for inode_needs_update_time " Jeff Layton
2024-06-27  1:00 ` [PATCH 04/10] fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps Jeff Layton
2024-06-27 15:02   ` Chuck Lever
2024-06-27 15:35     ` Jeff Layton
2024-06-27  1:00 ` [PATCH 05/10] fs: add percpu counters to count fine vs. coarse timestamps Jeff Layton
2024-06-27  1:00 ` [PATCH 06/10] fs: have setattr_copy handle multigrain timestamps appropriately Jeff Layton
2024-06-27  1:00 ` [PATCH 07/10] xfs: switch to multigrain timestamps Jeff Layton
2024-06-27  1:00 ` [PATCH 08/10] ext4: " Jeff Layton
2024-06-27  1:00 ` [PATCH 09/10] btrfs: convert " Jeff Layton
2024-06-27  1:00 ` [PATCH 10/10] tmpfs: add support for " Jeff Layton

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