2008-01-11 00:39:26

by Anton Salikhmetov

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Subject: [PATCH 2/2][RFC][BUG] msync: updating ctime and mtime at syncing

From: Anton Salikhmetov <[email protected]>

The patch contains changes for updating the ctime and mtime fields for memory mapped files:

1) adding a new flag triggering update of the inode data;
2) implementing a helper function for checking that flag and updating ctime and mtime;
3) updating time stamps for mapped files in sys_msync() and do_fsync().

Signed-off-by: Anton Salikhmetov <[email protected]>

---

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 7249e01..09adf7e 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -719,6 +719,7 @@ static int __set_page_dirty(struct page *page,
}
write_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
__mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
+ set_bit(AS_MCTIME, &mapping->flags);

return 1;
}
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index ed35383..c5b954e 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/bootmem.h>
#include <linux/inotify.h>
#include <linux/mount.h>
+#include <linux/file.h>

/*
* This is needed for the following functions:
@@ -1282,6 +1283,18 @@ void file_update_time(struct file *file)

EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_update_time);

+/*
+ * Update the ctime and mtime stamps after checking if they are to be updated.
+ */
+void mapped_file_update_time(struct file *file)
+{
+ if (test_and_clear_bit(AS_MCTIME, &file->f_mapping->flags)) {
+ get_file(file);
+ file_update_time(file);
+ fput(file);
+ }
+}
+
int inode_needs_sync(struct inode *inode)
{
if (IS_SYNC(inode))
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index 7cd005e..df57507 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ long do_fsync(struct file *file, int datasync)
goto out;
}

+ mapped_file_update_time(file);
+
ret = filemap_fdatawrite(mapping);

/*
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index b3ec4a4..0b05118 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1978,6 +1978,7 @@ extern int inode_change_ok(struct inode *, struct iattr *);
extern int __must_check inode_setattr(struct inode *, struct iattr *);

extern void file_update_time(struct file *file);
+extern void mapped_file_update_time(struct file *file);

static inline ino_t parent_ino(struct dentry *dentry)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index db8a410..bf0f9e7 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@
* Bits in mapping->flags. The lower __GFP_BITS_SHIFT bits are the page
* allocation mode flags.
*/
-#define AS_EIO (__GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 0) /* IO error on async write */
+#define AS_EIO (__GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 0) /* IO error on async write */
#define AS_ENOSPC (__GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 1) /* ENOSPC on async write */
+#define AS_MCTIME (__GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 2) /* mtime and ctime to update */

static inline void mapping_set_error(struct address_space *mapping, int error)
{
diff --git a/mm/msync.c b/mm/msync.c
index e788f7b..9d0a8f9 100644
--- a/mm/msync.c
+++ b/mm/msync.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
* Copyright (C) 1994-1999 Linus Torvalds
*
* Substantial code cleanup.
+ * Updating the ctime and mtime stamps for memory mapped files.
* Copyright (C) 2008 Anton Salikhmetov <[email protected]>
*/

@@ -22,6 +23,10 @@
* Nor does it mark the relevant pages dirty (it used to up to 2.6.17).
* Now it doesn't do anything, since dirty pages are properly tracked.
*
+ * The msync() system call updates the ctime and mtime fields for
+ * the mapped file when called with the MS_SYNC or MS_ASYNC flags
+ * according to the POSIX standard.
+ *
* The application may now run fsync() to
* write out the dirty pages and wait on the writeout and check the result.
* Or the application may run fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) against the fd to start
@@ -74,14 +79,17 @@ asmlinkage long sys_msync(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags)
break;
}
file = vma->vm_file;
- if ((flags & MS_SYNC) && file && (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {
- get_file(file);
- up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- error = do_fsync(file, 0);
- fput(file);
- if (error)
- return error;
- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ if (file && (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {
+ mapped_file_update_time(file);
+ if (flags & MS_SYNC) {
+ get_file(file);
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ error = do_fsync(file, 0);
+ fput(file);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ }
}

start = vma->vm_end;
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index d55cfca..a85df0b 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1025,6 +1025,7 @@ int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
if (mapping->host) {
/* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
__mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
+ set_bit(AS_MCTIME, &mapping->flags);
}
return 1;
}


2008-01-11 16:03:39

by Rik van Riel

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][RFC][BUG] msync: updating ctime and mtime at syncing

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:38:49 +0300
Anton Salikhmetov <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Anton Salikhmetov <[email protected]>
>
> The patch contains changes for updating the ctime and mtime fields for memory mapped files:
>
> 1) adding a new flag triggering update of the inode data;
> 2) implementing a helper function for checking that flag and updating ctime and mtime;
> 3) updating time stamps for mapped files in sys_msync() and do_fsync().
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Salikhmetov <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>

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