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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] lazytime fix and cleanups
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:49:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <X/9AxL5Mrt+CiKHx@sol.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210113162957.GA26686@quack2.suse.cz>

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 05:29:58PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Tue 12-01-21 11:02:42, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > Patch 1 fixes a bug in how __writeback_single_inode() handles lazytime
> > expirations.  I originally reported this last year
> > (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200306004555.GB225345@gmail.com) because it
> > causes the FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl to not work properly, as
> > the bug causes inodes to remain dirty after a sync.
> > 
> > It also turns out that lazytime on XFS is partially broken because it
> > doesn't actually write timestamps to disk after a sync() or after
> > dirtytime_expire_interval.  This is fixed by the same fix.
> > 
> > This supersedes previously proposed fixes, including
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200307020043.60118-1-tytso@mit.edu and
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200325122825.1086872-3-hch@lst.de from last
> > year (which had some issues and didn't fix the XFS bug), and v1 of this
> > patchset which took a different approach
> > (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105005452.92521-1-ebiggers@kernel.org).
> > 
> > Patches 2-11 then clean up various things related to lazytime and
> > writeback, such as clarifying the semantics of ->dirty_inode() and the
> > inode dirty flags, and improving comments.
> > 
> > This patchset applies to v5.11-rc2.
> 
> Thanks for the patches. I've picked the patches to my tree. I plan to push
> patch 1/11 to Linus later this week, the rest of the cleanups will go to
> him during the next merge window.
> 
> 								Honza

Sounds good, thanks!

- Eric

      reply	other threads:[~2021-01-13 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-12 19:02 [PATCH v3 00/11] lazytime fix and cleanups Eric Biggers
2021-01-12 19:02 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] fs: fix lazytime expiration handling in __writeback_single_inode() Eric Biggers
2021-01-12 19:02 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] fs: correctly document the inode dirty flags Eric Biggers
2021-01-12 19:02 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] fs: only specify I_DIRTY_TIME when needed in generic_update_time() Eric Biggers
2021-01-12 19:02 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] fat: only specify I_DIRTY_TIME when needed in fat_update_time() Eric Biggers
2021-01-12 19:02 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] fs: don't call ->dirty_inode for lazytime timestamp updates Eric Biggers
2021-01-12 19:02 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] fs: pass only I_DIRTY_INODE flags to ->dirty_inode Eric Biggers
2021-01-12 19:02 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] fs: clean up __mark_inode_dirty() a bit Eric Biggers
2021-01-12 19:02 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] fs: drop redundant check from __writeback_single_inode() Eric Biggers
2021-01-12 19:02 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] fs: improve comments for writeback_single_inode() Eric Biggers
2021-01-12 19:02 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] gfs2: don't worry about I_DIRTY_TIME in gfs2_fsync() Eric Biggers
2021-01-12 19:02 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] ext4: simplify i_state checks in __ext4_update_other_inode_time() Eric Biggers
2021-01-13  7:07   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-13 16:29 ` [PATCH v3 00/11] lazytime fix and cleanups Jan Kara
2021-01-13 18:49   ` Eric Biggers [this message]

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