[PATCH] Update atime from future.

From: yangsheng
Date: Tue Jan 04 2011 - 04:08:39 EST


If atime has been wrong set to future, then it cannot
be updated back to current time.

Signed-off-by: sickamd@xxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: adilger@xxxxxxxxx
---
fs/inode.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index da85e56..d92779f 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1446,6 +1446,8 @@ sector_t bmap(struct inode *inode, sector_t block)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bmap);

+#define RELATIME_MARGIN (24 * 60 * 60)
+
/*
* With relative atime, only update atime if the previous atime is
* earlier than either the ctime or mtime or if at least a day has
@@ -1469,10 +1471,16 @@ static int relatime_need_update(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct inode *inode,
return 1;

/*
+ * Is the previous atime value in future? If yes,
+ * update atime:
+ */
+ if ((long)(now.tv_sec - inode->i_atime.tv_sec) < -RELATIME_MARGIN)
+ return 1;
+ /*
* Is the previous atime value older than a day? If yes,
* update atime:
*/
- if ((long)(now.tv_sec - inode->i_atime.tv_sec) >= 24*60*60)
+ if ((long)(now.tv_sec - inode->i_atime.tv_sec) >= RELATIME_MARGIN)
return 1;
/*
* Good, we can skip the atime update:
--
1.7.2.3

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