Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: remain written times to update inode during fsync

[Jaegeuk Kim]

On 04/03, Chao Yu wrote:
> On 2018/3/31 0:30, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > Change log from v1:
> >  - add more description
> > 
> > This fixes xfstests/generic/392.
> > 
> > The failure was caused by different times between 1) one marked in the last
> > fsync(2) call and 2) the other given by roll-forward recovery after power-cut.
> > The reason was that we skipped updating inode block at 1), since its i_size
> > was recoverable along with 4KB-aligned data writes, which was fixed by:
> >   "f2fs: fix a wrong condition in f2fs_skip_inode_update"
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  fs/f2fs/f2fs.h  | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >  fs/f2fs/inode.c |  4 ++++
> >  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > index 000f93f6767e..675c39d85111 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > @@ -664,6 +664,7 @@ struct f2fs_inode_info {
> >  	kprojid_t i_projid;		/* id for project quota */
> >  	int i_inline_xattr_size;	/* inline xattr size */
> >  	struct timespec i_crtime;	/* inode creation time */
> > +	struct timespec i_disk_time[4];	/* inode disk times */
> >  };
> >  
> >  static inline void get_extent_info(struct extent_info *ext,
> > @@ -2457,6 +2458,11 @@ static inline void clear_file(struct inode *inode, int type)
> >  	f2fs_mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode, true);
> >  }
> >  
> > +static inline bool time_equal(struct timespec a, struct timespec b)
> > +{
> > +	return (a.tv_sec == b.tv_sec) && (a.tv_nsec == b.tv_nsec);
> > +}
> 
> We can use existing timespec_equal in <linux/time.h> instead of defining a
> duplicated one?

It is defined with const parameters.

> 
> > +
> >  static inline bool f2fs_skip_inode_update(struct inode *inode, int dsync)
> >  {
> >  	bool ret;
> > @@ -2474,6 +2480,15 @@ static inline bool f2fs_skip_inode_update(struct inode *inode, int dsync)
> >  			i_size_read(inode) & ~PAGE_MASK)
> >  		return false;
> >  
> > +	if (!time_equal(F2FS_I(inode)->i_disk_time[0], inode->i_atime))
> > +		return false;
> > +	if (!time_equal(F2FS_I(inode)->i_disk_time[1], inode->i_ctime))
> > +		return false;
> > +	if (!time_equal(F2FS_I(inode)->i_disk_time[2], inode->i_mtime))
> > +		return false;
> > +	if (!time_equal(F2FS_I(inode)->i_disk_time[3], F2FS_I(inode)->i_crtime))
> > +		return false;
> > +
> >  	down_read(&F2FS_I(inode)->i_sem);
> >  	ret = F2FS_I(inode)->last_disk_size == i_size_read(inode);
> >  	up_read(&F2FS_I(inode)->i_sem);
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> > index 401f09ccce7e..70aba580f4b0 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> > @@ -444,6 +444,10 @@ void update_inode(struct inode *inode, struct page *node_page)
> >  	if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
> >  		clear_inline_node(node_page);
> >  
> > +	F2FS_I(inode)->i_disk_time[0] = inode->i_atime;
> > +	F2FS_I(inode)->i_disk_time[1] = inode->i_ctime;
> > +	F2FS_I(inode)->i_disk_time[2] = inode->i_mtime;
> > +	F2FS_I(inode)->i_disk_time[3] = F2FS_I(inode)->i_crtime;
> 
> We need initialize them in do_read_inode?

Done.
Thanks,

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> >  }
> >  
> >  void update_inode_page(struct inode *inode)
> >