[PATCH 06/10] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper
Jan Kara
jack at suse.cz
Wed Dec 17 04:26:10 PST 2025
On Wed 17-12-25 07:09:39, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Centralize how we synchronize a lazytime update into the actual on-disk
> timestamp into a single helper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at kernel.org>
Looks good. Feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Honza
> ---
> fs/fs-writeback.c | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
> fs/inode.c | 5 +----
> fs/internal.h | 3 ++-
> fs/sync.c | 4 ++--
> include/trace/events/writeback.h | 6 ------
> 5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> index 7870c158e4a2..fa555e10d8b9 100644
> --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
> +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> @@ -1711,6 +1711,16 @@ static void requeue_inode(struct inode *inode, struct bdi_writeback *wb,
> }
> }
>
> +bool sync_lazytime(struct inode *inode)
> +{
> + if (!(inode_state_read_once(inode) & 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.
> @@ -1750,17 +1760,15 @@ __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_state_read_once(inode) & 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);
> - }
> + 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 2c0d69f7fd01..f1c09fc0913d 100644
> --- a/fs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/inode.c
> @@ -1979,11 +1979,8 @@ void iput(struct inode *inode)
> if (atomic_add_unless(&inode->i_count, -1, 1))
> return;
>
> - if ((inode_state_read_once(inode) & 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_state_read(inode) & I_DIRTY_TIME) && inode->i_nlink)) {
> diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
> index ab638d41ab81..18a062c1b5b0 100644
> --- a/fs/internal.h
> +++ b/fs/internal.h
> @@ -214,7 +214,8 @@ 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 431fc5f5be06..4283af7119d1 100644
> --- a/fs/sync.c
> +++ b/fs/sync.c
> @@ -183,8 +183,8 @@ 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_state_read_once(inode) & 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 311a341e6fe4..7162d03e69a5 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
>
--
Jan Kara <jack at suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
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