NFS: Make stat() return updated mtimes after a write() The SuS states that a call to write() will cause mtime to be updated on the file. In order to satisfy that requirement, we need to flush out any cached writes in nfs_getattr(). Speed things up slightly by not committing the writes. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- fs/nfs/inode.c | 2 ++ fs/nfs/write.c | 23 ++++++++++++----------- include/linux/nfs_fs.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c index acde2c5..2c7f8aa 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c @@ -952,6 +952,8 @@ int nfs_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, st int need_atime = NFS_I(inode)->cache_validity & NFS_INO_INVALID_ATIME; int err; + /* Flush out writes to the server in order to update c/mtime */ + nfs_sync_inode(inode, 0, 0, FLUSH_WAIT|FLUSH_NOCOMMIT); if (__IS_FLG(inode, MS_NOATIME)) need_atime = 0; else if (__IS_FLG(inode, MS_NODIRATIME) && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c index 1ce0c20..9449b68 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/write.c +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -1377,22 +1377,23 @@ int nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *inode int nfs_sync_inode(struct inode *inode, unsigned long idx_start, unsigned int npages, int how) { - int error, - wait; + int nocommit = how & FLUSH_NOCOMMIT; + int wait = how & FLUSH_WAIT; + int error; - wait = how & FLUSH_WAIT; - how &= ~FLUSH_WAIT; + how &= ~(FLUSH_WAIT|FLUSH_NOCOMMIT); do { - error = 0; - if (wait) + if (wait) { error = nfs_wait_on_requests(inode, idx_start, npages); - if (error == 0) - error = nfs_flush_inode(inode, idx_start, npages, how); -#if defined(CONFIG_NFS_V3) || defined(CONFIG_NFS_V4) - if (error == 0) + if (error != 0) + continue; + } + error = nfs_flush_inode(inode, idx_start, npages, how); + if (error != 0) + continue; + if (!nocommit) error = nfs_commit_inode(inode, how); -#endif } while (error > 0); return error; } diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h index d38010b..408d82d 100644 --- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h +++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ #define FLUSH_STABLE 4 /* commit to stable storage */ #define FLUSH_LOWPRI 8 /* low priority background flush */ #define FLUSH_HIGHPRI 16 /* high priority memory reclaim flush */ +#define FLUSH_NOCOMMIT 32 /* Don't send the NFSv3/v4 COMMIT */ #ifdef __KERNEL__