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authorValerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>2006-12-13 00:34:34 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-13 09:05:50 -0800
commit47ae32d6a54955a041cdc30b06d0bb16e75f68d5 (patch)
treeb28623f98ae536342d35443c6548c373df342e7f /fs/inode.c
parentb227613841d4d211a10c5860acc73e133b613bc0 (diff)
[PATCH] relative atime
Add "relatime" (relative atime) support. Relative atime only updates the atime if the previous atime is older than the mtime or ctime. Like noatime, but useful for applications like mutt that need to know when a file has been read since it was last modified. A corresponding patch against mount(8) is available at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mount-relative-atime.txt Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/inode.c22
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 04536ebc5ac..bf21dc6d0db 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1177,13 +1177,27 @@ void touch_atime(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry)
return;
if ((mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NODIRATIME) && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
return;
+
+ if (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_RELATIME) {
+ /*
+ * With relative atime, only update atime if the
+ * previous atime is earlier than either the ctime or
+ * mtime.
+ */
+ if (timespec_compare(&inode->i_mtime,
+ &inode->i_atime) < 0 &&
+ timespec_compare(&inode->i_ctime,
+ &inode->i_atime) < 0)
+ return;
+ }
}
now = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb);
- if (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_atime, &now)) {
- inode->i_atime = now;
- mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
- }
+ if (timespec_equal(&inode->i_atime, &now))
+ return;
+
+ inode->i_atime = now;
+ mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(touch_atime);