From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>,
Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>,
Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>, Stefan Roesch <shr@fb.com>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, gfs2@lists.linux.dev,
io-uring@vger.kernel.org, devel@lists.orangefs.org,
linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 01/10] fs: remove inode_update_time
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:09:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251217061015.923954-2-hch@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251217061015.923954-1-hch@lst.de>
The only external user is gone now, open code it in the two VFS
callers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
---
fs/inode.c | 23 ++++++++---------------
include/linux/fs.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 521383223d8a..07effa0cb999 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -2157,19 +2157,6 @@ int generic_update_time(struct inode *inode, int flags)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_update_time);
-/*
- * This does the actual work of updating an inodes time or version. Must have
- * had called mnt_want_write() before calling this.
- */
-int inode_update_time(struct inode *inode, int flags)
-{
- if (inode->i_op->update_time)
- return inode->i_op->update_time(inode, flags);
- generic_update_time(inode, flags);
- return 0;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_update_time);
-
/**
* atime_needs_update - update the access time
* @path: the &struct path to update
@@ -2237,7 +2224,10 @@ void touch_atime(const struct path *path)
* We may also fail on filesystems that have the ability to make parts
* of the fs read only, e.g. subvolumes in Btrfs.
*/
- inode_update_time(inode, S_ATIME);
+ if (inode->i_op->update_time)
+ inode->i_op->update_time(inode, S_ATIME);
+ else
+ generic_update_time(inode, S_ATIME);
mnt_put_write_access(mnt);
skip_update:
sb_end_write(inode->i_sb);
@@ -2392,7 +2382,10 @@ static int file_update_time_flags(struct file *file, unsigned int flags)
if (mnt_get_write_access_file(file))
return 0;
- ret = inode_update_time(inode, sync_mode);
+ if (inode->i_op->update_time)
+ ret = inode->i_op->update_time(inode, sync_mode);
+ else
+ ret = generic_update_time(inode, sync_mode);
mnt_put_write_access_file(file);
return ret;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index f5c9cf28c4dc..ee623c16d835 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2246,7 +2246,6 @@ enum file_time_flags {
extern bool atime_needs_update(const struct path *, struct inode *);
extern void touch_atime(const struct path *);
-int inode_update_time(struct inode *inode, int flags);
static inline void file_accessed(struct file *file)
{
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-17 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-17 6:09 re-enable IOCB_NOWAIT writes to files v3 Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-17 6:09 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-12-17 6:09 ` [PATCH 02/10] fs: allow error returns from generic_update_time Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-17 6:09 ` [PATCH 03/10] fs: exit early in generic_update_time when there is no work Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-17 6:09 ` [PATCH 04/10] fs: factor out a mark_inode_dirty_time helper Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-17 6:09 ` [PATCH 05/10] fs: allow error returns from inode_update_timestamps Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-17 12:23 ` Jan Kara
2025-12-17 6:09 ` [PATCH 06/10] fs: factor out a sync_lazytime helper Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-17 12:26 ` Jan Kara
2025-12-17 6:09 ` [PATCH 07/10] fs: add a ->sync_lazytime method Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-17 12:30 ` Jan Kara
2025-12-18 6:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-17 6:09 ` [PATCH 08/10] fs: add support for non-blocking timestamp updates Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-17 12:42 ` Jan Kara
2025-12-18 6:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-19 15:12 ` Jan Kara
2025-12-22 23:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-17 6:09 ` [PATCH 09/10] xfs: implement ->sync_lazytime Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-17 6:09 ` [PATCH 10/10] xfs: enable non-blocking timestamp updates Christoph Hellwig
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