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-rw-r--r--include/linux/exportfs.h1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/iversion.h60
-rw-r--r--include/linux/stat.h9
3 files changed, 31 insertions, 39 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/exportfs.h b/include/linux/exportfs.h
index fe848901fcc3..9f4d4bcbf251 100644
--- a/include/linux/exportfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/exportfs.h
@@ -213,7 +213,6 @@ struct export_operations {
bool write, u32 *device_generation);
int (*commit_blocks)(struct inode *inode, struct iomap *iomaps,
int nr_iomaps, struct iattr *iattr);
- u64 (*fetch_iversion)(struct inode *);
#define EXPORT_OP_NOWCC (0x1) /* don't collect v3 wcc data */
#define EXPORT_OP_NOSUBTREECHK (0x2) /* no subtree checking */
#define EXPORT_OP_CLOSE_BEFORE_UNLINK (0x4) /* close files before unlink */
diff --git a/include/linux/iversion.h b/include/linux/iversion.h
index e27bd4f55d84..f174ff1b59ee 100644
--- a/include/linux/iversion.h
+++ b/include/linux/iversion.h
@@ -9,8 +9,26 @@
* ---------------------------
* The change attribute (i_version) is mandated by NFSv4 and is mostly for
* knfsd, but is also used for other purposes (e.g. IMA). The i_version must
- * appear different to observers if there was a change to the inode's data or
- * metadata since it was last queried.
+ * appear larger to observers if there was an explicit change to the inode's
+ * data or metadata since it was last queried.
+ *
+ * An explicit change is one that would ordinarily result in a change to the
+ * inode status change time (aka ctime). i_version must appear to change, even
+ * if the ctime does not (since the whole point is to avoid missing updates due
+ * to timestamp granularity). If POSIX or other relevant spec mandates that the
+ * ctime must change due to an operation, then the i_version counter must be
+ * incremented as well.
+ *
+ * Making the i_version update completely atomic with the operation itself would
+ * be prohibitively expensive. Traditionally the kernel has updated the times on
+ * directories after an operation that changes its contents. For regular files,
+ * the ctime is usually updated before the data is copied into the cache for a
+ * write. This means that there is a window of time when an observer can
+ * associate a new timestamp with old file contents. Since the purpose of the
+ * i_version is to allow for better cache coherency, the i_version must always
+ * be updated after the results of the operation are visible. Updating it before
+ * and after a change is also permitted. (Note that no filesystems currently do
+ * this. Fixing that is a work-in-progress).
*
* Observers see the i_version as a 64-bit number that never decreases. If it
* remains the same since it was last checked, then nothing has changed in the
@@ -234,42 +252,6 @@ inode_peek_iversion(const struct inode *inode)
return inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode) >> I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT;
}
-/**
- * inode_query_iversion - read i_version for later use
- * @inode: inode from which i_version should be read
- *
- * Read the inode i_version counter. This should be used by callers that wish
- * to store the returned i_version for later comparison. This will guarantee
- * that a later query of the i_version will result in a different value if
- * anything has changed.
- *
- * In this implementation, we fetch the current value, set the QUERIED flag and
- * then try to swap it into place with a cmpxchg, if it wasn't already set. If
- * that fails, we try again with the newly fetched value from the cmpxchg.
- */
-static inline u64
-inode_query_iversion(struct inode *inode)
-{
- u64 cur, new;
-
- cur = inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode);
- do {
- /* If flag is already set, then no need to swap */
- if (cur & I_VERSION_QUERIED) {
- /*
- * This barrier (and the implicit barrier in the
- * cmpxchg below) pairs with the barrier in
- * inode_maybe_inc_iversion().
- */
- smp_mb();
- break;
- }
-
- new = cur | I_VERSION_QUERIED;
- } while (!atomic64_try_cmpxchg(&inode->i_version, &cur, new));
- return cur >> I_VERSION_QUERIED_SHIFT;
-}
-
/*
* For filesystems without any sort of change attribute, the best we can
* do is fake one up from the ctime:
@@ -283,6 +265,8 @@ static inline u64 time_to_chattr(struct timespec64 *t)
return chattr;
}
+u64 inode_query_iversion(struct inode *inode);
+
/**
* inode_eq_iversion_raw - check whether the raw i_version counter has changed
* @inode: inode to check
diff --git a/include/linux/stat.h b/include/linux/stat.h
index ff277ced50e9..52150570d37a 100644
--- a/include/linux/stat.h
+++ b/include/linux/stat.h
@@ -52,6 +52,15 @@ struct kstat {
u64 mnt_id;
u32 dio_mem_align;
u32 dio_offset_align;
+ u64 change_cookie;
};
+/* These definitions are internal to the kernel for now. Mainly used by nfsd. */
+
+/* mask values */
+#define STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE 0x40000000U /* Want/got stx_change_attr */
+
+/* file attribute values */
+#define STATX_ATTR_CHANGE_MONOTONIC 0x8000000000000000ULL /* version monotonically increases */
+
#endif