Re: [PATCH 2/2] NFSD: Update the atime for iterator READs

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 03:57:15AM +0500, Ameer Hamza wrote:
> A READ served by nfsd_iter_read() or nfsd_direct_read() leaves the
> atime update to the filesystem's ->read_iter, and not every
> implementation does it: fuse_dax_read_iter() carries a TODO for
> it, and kernfs_fop_read_iter() does not touch the atime at all. On
> a fuse DAX export, READs never advance the atime, no matter how
> often clients read the file. Spliced READs are not affected, since
> splice_direct_to_actor() ends with file_accessed(). nfsd serves
> whatever filesystem is exported, so it cannot rely on every
> ->read_iter keeping the convention.

Code outside of file systems and library code has absolutely no
business ever calling file_accessed.

And please stop this LLM garbage.  Your patches seem to have a pattern
of finding some unusual corner case that is broken in a file system
and than work around it in core code.  That's not how it works.