[PATCH v6 0/9] fs: multigrain timestamp redux

Jeff Layton
2024-07-15T12:49:10Z

I think this is pretty much ready for linux-next now. Since the latest
changes are pretty minimal, I've left the Reviewed-by's intact. It would
be nice to have acks or reviews from maintainers for ext4 and tmpfs too.

I did try to plumb this into bcachefs too, but the way it handles
timestamps makes that pretty difficult. It keeps the active copies in an
internal representation of the on-disk inode and periodically copies
them to struct inode. This is backward from the way most blockdev
filesystems do this.

Christian, would you be willing to pick these up with an eye toward
v6.12 after the merge window settles?

Thanks!

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
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Changes in v6:
- Normalize timespec64 in inode_set_ctime_to_ts
- use DEFINE_PER_CPU counters for better vfs consistency
- skip ctime cmpxchg if the result means nothing will change
- add trace_ctime_xchg_skip to track skipped ctime updates
- use __print_flags in ctime_ns_xchg tracepoint
- Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240711-mgtime-v5-0-37bb5b465feb@kernel.org

Changes in v5:
- refetch coarse time in coarse_ctime if not returning floor
- timestamp_truncate before swapping new ctime value into place
- track floor value as atomic64_t
- cleanups to Documentation file
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240708-mgtime-v4-0-a0f3c6fb57f3@kernel.org

Changes in v4:
- reordered tracepoint fields for better packing
- rework percpu counters again to also count fine grained timestamps
- switch to try_cmpxchg for better efficiency
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240705-mgtime-v3-0-85b2daa9b335@kernel.org

Changes in v3:
- Drop the conversion of i_ctime fields to ktime_t, and use an unused bit
of the i_ctime_nsec field as QUERIED flag.
- Better tracepoints for tracking floor and ctime updates
- Reworked percpu counters to be more useful
- Track floor as monotonic value, which eliminates clock-jump problem

Changes in v2:
- Added Documentation file
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240626-mgtime-v1-0-a189352d0f8f@kernel.org

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Jeff Layton (9):
fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps
fs: tracepoints around multigrain timestamp events
fs: add percpu counters for significant multigrain timestamp events
fs: have setattr_copy handle multigrain timestamps appropriately
Documentation: add a new file documenting multigrain timestamps
xfs: switch to multigrain timestamps
ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps
btrfs: convert to multigrain timestamps
tmpfs: add support for multigrain timestamps

Documentation/filesystems/multigrain-ts.rst | 120 +++++++++++++
fs/attr.c | 52 +++++-
fs/btrfs/file.c | 25 +--
fs/btrfs/super.c | 3 +-
fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +-
fs/inode.c | 251 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
fs/stat.c | 39 ++++-
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_inode.c | 6 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 10 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 2 +-
include/linux/fs.h | 34 +++-
include/trace/events/timestamp.h | 124 ++++++++++++++
mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
13 files changed, 592 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
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base-commit: bb83a76c647a96db4c9ae77b0577170da4d7bd77
change-id: 20240626-mgtime-5cd80b18d810

Best regards,
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Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>