kernel/linux.git/include/linux/fs.h, branch v6.6.16

fs: new accessor methods for atime and mtime

2024-01-05T14:19:40+00:00

[ Upstream commit 077c212f0344ae4198b2b51af128a94b614ccdf4 ] Recently, we converted the ctime accesses in the kernel to use new accessor functions. Linus recently pointed out though that if we add accessors for the atime and mtime, then that would allow us to seamlessly change how these timestamps are stored in the inode. Add new accessor functions for the atime and mtime that mirror the accessors for the ctime. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004185239.80830-1-jlayton@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Stable-dep-of: 01fe654f78fd ("fs: cifs: Fix atime update check") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

audit,io_uring: io_uring openat triggers audit reference count underflow

2023-10-13T16:34:46+00:00

An io_uring openat operation can update an audit reference count from multiple threads resulting in the call trace below. A call to io_uring_submit() with a single openat op with a flag of IOSQE_ASYNC results in the following reference count updates. These first part of the system call performs two increments that do not race. do_syscall_64() __do_sys_io_uring_enter() io_submit_sqes() io_openat_prep() __io_openat_prep() getname() getname_flags() /* update 1 (increment) */ __audit_getname() /* update 2 (increment) */ The openat op is queued to an io_uring worker thread which starts the opportunity for a race. The system call exit performs one decrement. do_syscall_64() syscall_exit_to_user_mode() syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare() __audit_syscall_exit() audit_reset_context() putname() /* update 3 (decrement) */ The io_uring worker thread performs one increment and two decrements. These updates can race with the system call decrement. io_wqe_worker() io_worker_handle_work() io_wq_submit_work() io_issue_sqe() io_openat() io_openat2() do_filp_open() path_openat() __audit_inode() /* update 4 (increment) */ putname() /* update 5 (decrement) */ __audit_uring_exit() audit_reset_context() putname() /* update 6 (decrement) */ The fix is to change the refcnt member of struct audit_names from int to atomic_t. kernel BUG at fs/namei.c:262! Call Trace: ... ? putname+0x68/0x70 audit_reset_context.part.0.constprop.0+0xe1/0x300 __audit_uring_exit+0xda/0x1c0 io_issue_sqe+0x1f3/0x450 ? lock_timer_base+0x3b/0xd0 io_wq_submit_work+0x8d/0x2b0 ? __try_to_del_timer_sync+0x67/0xa0 io_worker_handle_work+0x17c/0x2b0 io_wqe_worker+0x10a/0x350 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/MW2PR2101MB1033FFF044A258F84AEAA584F1C9A@MW2PR2101MB1033.namprd21.prod.outlook.com/ Fixes: 5bd2182d58e9 ("audit,io_uring,io-wq: add some basic audit support to io_uring") Signed-off-by: Dan Clash Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231012215518.GA4048@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Revert "fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps"

2023-09-20T16:05:31+00:00

This reverts commit ffb6cf19e06334062744b7e3493f71e500964f8e. Users reported regressions due to enabling multi-grained timestamps unconditionally. As no clear consensus on a solution has come up and the discussion has gone back to the drawing board revert the infrastructure changes for. If it isn't code that's here to stay, make it go away. Message-ID: <20230920-keine-eile-c9755b5825db@brauner> Acked-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: export sget_dev()

2023-08-31T10:47:15+00:00

They will be used for mtd devices as well. Acked-by: Richard Weinberger Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Message-Id: <20230829-vfs-super-mtd-v1-1-fecb572e5df3@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-08-29T21:25:26+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in add_to_avail_list") - Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages. - Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path of mas_store()"). - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements"). - Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap ("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program"). - xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support tracking KSM-placed zero-pages"). - Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED"). - David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache: Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache"). - Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with UFFD"). - Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge() check"). - Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup"). - Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU"). - Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes ("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages"). - Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code ("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check"). - More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a folio"). - page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext"). - Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way"). - Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration"). - Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree"). - Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation, from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission upgrade"). - Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes for arm64"). - Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code ("Two minor cleanups for compaction"). - Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle most file-backed faults under the VMA lock"). - Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap optimization for ppc64"). - page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header"). - Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three cleanups"). - kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan"). - VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to vma_is_initial_heap/stack()"). - DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets"). - Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction"). - Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code ("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy"). - ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely ("cleanup with helper macro K()"). - Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for memmap on memory feature on ppc64"). - pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock migratetype"). - Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking, "struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page"). - memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups for vm.memfd_noexec"). - MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h"). - THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text output"). - kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized"). - More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor and _folio_order"). - A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan ("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults"). - pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table range API"). - A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups"). - Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew Wilcox ("Change calling convention for ->huge_fault"). - Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation"). * tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits) maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append() secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem() nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize() mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files. mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps() mm: remove enum page_entry_size mm: allow ->huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h mm: remove checks for pte_index memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap mm/huge_memory: work on folio->swap instead of page->private when splitting folio mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry() mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio mm/swap: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0 selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check ...

Merge tag 'iomap-6.6-merge-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux

2023-08-28T18:59:52+00:00

Pull iomap updates from Darrick Wong: "We've got some big changes for this release -- I'm very happy to be landing willy's work to enable large folios for the page cache for general read and write IOs when the fs can make contiguous space allocations, and Ritesh's work to track sub-folio dirty state to eliminate the write amplification problems inherent in using large folios. As a bonus, io_uring can now process write completions in the caller's context instead of bouncing through a workqueue, which should reduce io latency dramatically. IOWs, XFS should see a nice performance bump for both IO paths. Summary: - Make large writes to the page cache fill sparse parts of the cache with large folios, then use large memcpy calls for the large folio. - Track the per-block dirty state of each large folio so that a buffered write to a single byte on a large folio does not result in a (potentially) multi-megabyte writeback IO. - Allow some directio completions to be performed in the initiating task's context instead of punting through a workqueue. This will reduce latency for some io_uring requests" * tag 'iomap-6.6-merge-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (26 commits) iomap: support IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP io_uring/rw: add write support for IOCB_DIO_CALLER_COMP fs: add IOCB flags related to passing back dio completions iomap: add IOMAP_DIO_INLINE_COMP iomap: only set iocb->private for polled bio iomap: treat a write through cache the same as FUA iomap: use an unsigned type for IOMAP_DIO_* defines iomap: cleanup up iomap_dio_bio_end_io() iomap: Add per-block dirty state tracking to improve performance iomap: Allocate ifs in ->write_begin() early iomap: Refactor iomap_write_delalloc_punch() function out iomap: Use iomap_punch_t typedef iomap: Fix possible overflow condition in iomap_write_delalloc_scan iomap: Add some uptodate state handling helpers for ifs state bitmap iomap: Drop ifs argument from iomap_set_range_uptodate() iomap: Rename iomap_page to iomap_folio_state and others iomap: Copy larger chunks from userspace iomap: Create large folios in the buffered write path filemap: Allow __filemap_get_folio to allocate large folios filemap: Add fgf_t typedef ...

Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2023-08-28T18:04:18+00:00

Pull superblock updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains the super rework that was ready for this cycle. The first part changes the order of how we open block devices and allocate superblocks, contains various cleanups, simplifications, and a new mechanism to wait on superblock state changes. This unblocks work to ultimately limit the number of writers to a block device. Jan has already scheduled follow-up work that will be ready for v6.7 and allows us to restrict the number of writers to a given block device. That series builds on this work right here. The second part contains filesystem freezing updates. Overview: The generic superblock changes are rougly organized as follows (ignoring additional minor cleanups): (1) Removal of the bd_super member from struct block_device. This was a very odd back pointer to struct super_block with unclear rules. For all relevant places we have other means to get the same information so just get rid of this. (2) Simplify rules for superblock cleanup. Roughly, everything that is allocated during fs_context initialization and that's stored in fs_context->s_fs_info needs to be cleaned up by the fs_context->free() implementation before the superblock allocation function has been called successfully. After sget_fc() returned fs_context->s_fs_info has been transferred to sb->s_fs_info at which point sb->kill_sb() if fully responsible for cleanup. Adhering to these rules means that cleanup of sb->s_fs_info in fill_super() is to be avoided as it's brittle and inconsistent. Cleanup shouldn't be duplicated between sb->put_super() as sb->put_super() is only called if sb->s_root has been set aka when the filesystem has been successfully born (SB_BORN). That complexity should be avoided. This also means that block devices are to be closed in sb->kill_sb() instead of sb->put_super(). More details in the lower section. (3) Make it possible to lookup or create a superblock before opening block devices There's a subtle dependency on (2) as some filesystems did rely on fill_super() to be called in order to correctly clean up sb->s_fs_info. All these filesystems have been fixed. (4) Switch most filesystem to follow the same logic as the generic mount code now does as outlined in (3). (5) Use the superblock as the holder of the block device. We can now easily go back from block device to owning superblock. (6) Export and extend the generic fs_holder_ops and use them as holder ops everywhere and remove the filesystem specific holder ops. (7) Call from the block layer up into the filesystem layer when the block device is removed, allowing to shut down the filesystem without risk of deadlocks. (8) Get rid of get_super(). We can now easily go back from the block device to owning superblock and can call up from the block layer into the filesystem layer when the device is removed. So no need to wade through all registered superblock to find the owning superblock anymore" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230824-prall-intakt-95dbffdee4a0@brauner/ * tag 'v6.6-vfs.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (47 commits) super: use higher-level helper for {freeze,thaw} super: wait until we passed kill super super: wait for nascent superblocks super: make locking naming consistent super: use locking helpers fs: simplify invalidate_inodes fs: remove get_super block: call into the file system for ioctl BLKFLSBUF block: call into the file system for bdev_mark_dead block: consolidate __invalidate_device and fsync_bdev block: drop the "busy inodes on changed media" log message dasd: also call __invalidate_device when setting the device offline amiflop: don't call fsync_bdev in FDFMTBEG floppy: call disk_force_media_change when changing the format block: simplify the disk_force_media_change interface nbd: call blk_mark_disk_dead in nbd_clear_sock_ioctl xfs use fs_holder_ops for the log and RT devices xfs: drop s_umount over opening the log and RT devices ext4: use fs_holder_ops for the log device ext4: drop s_umount over opening the log device ...

Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2023-08-28T17:17:14+00:00

Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes for vfs and individual filesystems. Features: - Block mode changes on symlinks and rectify our broken semantics - Report file modifications via fsnotify() for splice - Allow specifying an explicit timeout for the "rootwait" kernel command line option. This allows to timeout and reboot instead of always waiting indefinitely for the root device to show up - Use synchronous fput for the close system call Cleanups: - Get rid of open-coded lockdep workarounds for async io submitters and replace it all with a single consolidated helper - Simplify epoll allocation helper - Convert simple_write_begin and simple_write_end to use a folio - Convert page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() to use a folio - Simplify __range_close to avoid pointless locking - Disable per-cpu buffer head cache for isolated cpus - Port ecryptfs to kmap_local_page() api - Remove redundant initialization of pointer buf in pipe code - Unexport the d_genocide() function which is only used within core vfs - Replace printk(KERN_ERR) and WARN_ON() with WARN() Fixes: - Fix various kernel-doc issues - Fix refcount underflow for eventfds when used as EFD_SEMAPHORE - Fix a mainly theoretical issue in devpts - Check the return value of __getblk() in reiserfs - Fix a racy assert in i_readcount_dec - Fix integer conversion issues in various functions - Fix LSM security context handling during automounts that prevented NFS superblock sharing" * tag 'v6.6-vfs.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (39 commits) cachefiles: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers ovl: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers aio: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers io_uring: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers fs: create kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers fs: add kerneldoc to file_{start,end}_write() helpers io_uring: rename kiocb_end_write() local helper splice: Convert page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() to use a folio libfs: Convert simple_write_begin and simple_write_end to use a folio fs/dcache: Replace printk and WARN_ON by WARN fs/pipe: remove redundant initialization of pointer buf fs: Fix kernel-doc warnings devpts: Fix kernel-doc warnings doc: idmappings: fix an error and rephrase a paragraph init: Add support for rootwait timeout parameter vfs: fix up the assert in i_readcount_dec fs: Fix one kernel-doc comment docs: filesystems: idmappings: clarify from where idmappings are taken fs/buffer.c: disable per-CPU buffer_head cache for isolated CPUs vfs, security: Fix automount superblock LSM init problem, preventing NFS sb sharing ...

Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.tmpfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2023-08-28T16:55:25+00:00

Pull libfs and tmpfs updates from Christian Brauner: "This cycle saw a lot of work for tmpfs that required changes to the vfs layer. Andrew, Hugh, and I decided to take tmpfs through vfs this cycle. Things will go back to mm next cycle. Features ======== - By far the biggest work is the quota support for tmpfs. New tmpfs quota infrastructure is added to support it and a new QFMT_SHMEM uapi option is exposed. This offers user and group quotas to tmpfs (project quotas will be added later). Similar to other filesystems tmpfs quota are not supported within user namespaces yet. - Add support for user xattrs. While tmpfs already supports security xattrs (security.*) and POSIX ACLs for a long time it lacked support for user xattrs (user.*). With this pull request tmpfs will be able to support a limited number of user xattrs. This is accompanied by a fix (see below) to limit persistent simple xattr allocations. - Add support for stable directory offsets. Currently tmpfs relies on the libfs provided cursor-based mechanism for readdir. This causes issues when a tmpfs filesystem is exported via NFS. NFS clients do not open directories. Instead, each server-side readdir operation opens the directory, reads it, and then closes it. Since the cursor state for that directory is associated with the opened file it is discarded after each readdir operation. Such directory offsets are not just cached by NFS clients but also various userspace libraries based on these clients. As it stands there is no way to invalidate the caches when directory offsets have changed and the whole application depends on unchanging directory offsets. At LSFMM we discussed how to solve this problem and decided to support stable directory offsets. libfs now allows filesystems like tmpfs to use an xarrary to map a directory offset to a dentry. This mechanism is currently only used by tmpfs but can be supported by others as well. Fixes ===== - Change persistent simple xattrs allocations in libfs from GFP_KERNEL to GPF_KERNEL_ACCOUNT so they're subject to memory cgroup limits. Since this is a change to libfs it affects both tmpfs and kernfs. - Correctly verify {g,u}id mount options. A new filesystem context is created via fsopen() which records the namespace that becomes the owning namespace of the superblock when fsconfig(FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE) is called for filesystems that are mountable in namespaces. However, fsconfig() calls can occur in a namespace different from the namespace where fsopen() has been called. Currently, when fsconfig() is called to set {g,u}id mount options the requested {g,u}id is mapped into a k{g,u}id according to the namespace where fsconfig() was called from. The resulting k{g,u}id is not guaranteed to be resolvable in the namespace of the filesystem (the one that fsopen() was called in). This means it's possible for an unprivileged user to create files owned by any group in a tmpfs mount since it's possible to set the setid bits on the tmpfs directory. The contract for {g,u}id mount options and {g,u}id values in general set from userspace has always been that they are translated according to the caller's idmapping. In so far, tmpfs has been doing the correct thing. But since tmpfs is mountable in unprivileged contexts it is also necessary to verify that the resulting {k,g}uid is representable in the namespace of the superblock to avoid such bugs. The new mount api's cross-namespace delegation abilities are already widely used. Having talked to a bunch of userspace this is the most faithful solution with minimal regression risks" * tag 'v6.6-vfs.tmpfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: tmpfs,xattr: GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for simple xattrs mm: invalidation check mapping before folio_contains tmpfs: trivial support for direct IO tmpfs,xattr: enable limited user extended attributes tmpfs: track free_ispace instead of free_inodes xattr: simple_xattr_set() return old_xattr to be freed tmpfs: verify {g,u}id mount options correctly shmem: move spinlock into shmem_recalc_inode() to fix quota support libfs: Remove parent dentry locking in offset_iterate_dir() libfs: Add a lock class for the offset map's xa_lock shmem: stable directory offsets shmem: Refactor shmem_symlink() libfs: Add directory operations for stable offsets shmem: fix quota lock nesting in huge hole handling shmem: Add default quota limit mount options shmem: quota support shmem: prepare shmem quota infrastructure quota: Check presence of quota operation structures instead of ->quota_read and ->quota_write callbacks shmem: make shmem_get_inode() return ERR_PTR instead of NULL shmem: make shmem_inode_acct_block() return error

Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.ctime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2023-08-28T16:31:32+00:00

Pull vfs timestamp updates from Christian Brauner: "This adds VFS support for multi-grain timestamps and converts tmpfs, xfs, ext4, and btrfs to use them. This carries acks from all relevant filesystems. The VFS always uses coarse-grained timestamps when updating the ctime and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing filesystems to optimize away a lot of metadata updates, down to around 1 per jiffy, even when a file is under heavy writes. Unfortunately, this has always been an issue when we're exporting via NFSv3, which relies on timestamps to validate caches. A lot of changes can happen in a jiffy, so timestamps aren't sufficient to help the client decide to invalidate the cache. Even with NFSv4, a lot of exported filesystems don't properly support a change attribute and are subject to the same problems with timestamp granularity. Other applications have similar issues with timestamps (e.g., backup applications). If we were to always use fine-grained timestamps, that would improve the situation, but that becomes rather expensive, as the underlying filesystem would have to log a lot more metadata updates. This introduces fine-grained timestamps that are used when they are actively queried. This uses the 31st bit of the ctime tv_nsec field to indicate that something has queried the inode for the mtime or ctime. When this flag is set, on the next mtime or ctime update, the kernel will fetch a fine-grained timestamp instead of the usual coarse-grained one. As POSIX generally mandates that when the mtime changes, the ctime must also change the kernel always stores normalized ctime values, so only the first 30 bits of the tv_nsec field are ever used. Filesytems can opt into this behavior by setting the FS_MGTIME flag in the fstype. Filesystems that don't set this flag will continue to use coarse-grained timestamps. Various preparatory changes, fixes and cleanups are included: - Fixup all relevant places where POSIX requires updating ctime together with mtime. This is a wide-range of places and all maintainers provided necessary Acks. - Add new accessors for inode->i_ctime directly and change all callers to rely on them. Plain accesses to inode->i_ctime are now gone and it is accordingly rename to inode->__i_ctime and commented as requiring accessors. - Extend generic_fillattr() to pass in a request mask mirroring in a sense the statx() uapi. This allows callers to pass in a request mask to only get a subset of attributes filled in. - Rework timestamp updates so it's possible to drop the @now parameter the update_time() inode operation and associated helpers. - Add inode_update_timestamps() and convert all filesystems to it removing a bunch of open-coding" * tag 'v6.6-vfs.ctime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (107 commits) btrfs: convert to multigrain timestamps ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps xfs: switch to multigrain timestamps tmpfs: add support for multigrain timestamps fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps fs: drop the timespec64 argument from update_time xfs: have xfs_vn_update_time gets its own timestamp fat: make fat_update_time get its own timestamp fat: remove i_version handling from fat_update_time ubifs: have ubifs_update_time use inode_update_timestamps btrfs: have it use inode_update_timestamps fs: drop the timespec64 arg from generic_update_time fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr fs: remove silly warning from current_time gfs2: fix timestamp handling on quota inodes fs: rename i_ctime field to __i_ctime selinux: convert to ctime accessor functions security: convert to ctime accessor functions apparmor: convert to ctime accessor functions sunrpc: convert to ctime accessor functions ...