Re: [PATCH] fs: don't overwrite the nsec field if I_CTIME_QUERIED is already set

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Fri Aug 09 2024 - 11:06:06 EST


On Fri, 2024-08-09 at 16:55 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 09:39:43AM GMT, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > When fetching the ctime's nsec value for a stat-like operation, do
> > a
> > simple fetch first and avoid the atomic_fetch_or if the flag is
> > already
> > set.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > I'm running tests on this now, but I don't expect any problems.
> >
> > This is based on top of Christian's vfs.mgtime branch. It may be
> > best to
> > squash this into 6feb43ecdd8e ("fs: add infrastructure for
> > multigrain
> > timestamps").
>
> Squashed it. Can you double-check that things look correct?

One minor issue in fill_mg_cmtime:

-------------8<-----------------
if (!(stat->ctime.tv_nsec & I_CTIME_QUERIED))
stat->ctime.tv_nsec = ((u32)atomic_fetch_or(I_CTIME_QUERIED, pcn));
trace_fill_mg_cmtime(inode, &stat->ctime, &stat->mtime);
stat->ctime.tv_nsec &= ~I_CTIME_QUERIED;
}
-------------8<-----------------

I'd swap the last two lines of the function. We print the ctime in the
tracepoint as a timestamp, so if the QUERIED bit is present it's going
to look funny. We _know_ that it's flagged after this function, so
leaving it set is not terribly helpful.

--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>