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authorValerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>2006-12-13 08:34:34 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-13 17:05:50 (GMT)
commit47ae32d6a54955a041cdc30b06d0bb16e75f68d5 (patch)
treeb28623f98ae536342d35443c6548c373df342e7f /fs
parentb227613841d4d211a10c5860acc73e133b613bc0 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-47ae32d6a54955a041cdc30b06d0bb16e75f68d5.tar.xz
[PATCH] relative atime
Add "relatime" (relative atime) support. Relative atime only updates the atime if the previous atime is older than the mtime or ctime. Like noatime, but useful for applications like mutt that need to know when a file has been read since it was last modified. A corresponding patch against mount(8) is available at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mount-relative-atime.txt Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/inode.c22
-rw-r--r--fs/namespace.c5
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 04536eb..bf21dc6 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1177,13 +1177,27 @@ void touch_atime(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry)
return;
if ((mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NODIRATIME) && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
return;
+
+ if (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_RELATIME) {
+ /*
+ * With relative atime, only update atime if the
+ * previous atime is earlier than either the ctime or
+ * mtime.
+ */
+ if (timespec_compare(&inode->i_mtime,
+ &inode->i_atime) < 0 &&
+ timespec_compare(&inode->i_ctime,
+ &inode->i_atime) < 0)
+ return;
+ }
}
now = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb);
- if (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_atime, &now)) {
- inode->i_atime = now;
- mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
- }
+ if (timespec_equal(&inode->i_atime, &now))
+ return;
+
+ inode->i_atime = now;
+ mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(touch_atime);
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index fde8553..5ef336c 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -368,6 +368,7 @@ static int show_vfsmnt(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
{ MNT_NOEXEC, ",noexec" },
{ MNT_NOATIME, ",noatime" },
{ MNT_NODIRATIME, ",nodiratime" },
+ { MNT_RELATIME, ",relatime" },
{ 0, NULL }
};
struct proc_fs_info *fs_infop;
@@ -1405,9 +1406,11 @@ long do_mount(char *dev_name, char *dir_name, char *type_page,
mnt_flags |= MNT_NOATIME;
if (flags & MS_NODIRATIME)
mnt_flags |= MNT_NODIRATIME;
+ if (flags & MS_RELATIME)
+ mnt_flags |= MNT_RELATIME;
flags &= ~(MS_NOSUID | MS_NOEXEC | MS_NODEV | MS_ACTIVE |
- MS_NOATIME | MS_NODIRATIME);
+ MS_NOATIME | MS_NODIRATIME | MS_RELATIME);
/* ... and get the mountpoint */
retval = path_lookup(dir_name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &nd);