提交 1e9d6333 编写于 作者: E Eric Biggers 提交者: Jan Kara

fs: correctly document the inode dirty flags

The documentation for I_DIRTY_SYNC and I_DIRTY_DATASYNC is a bit
misleading, and I_DIRTY_TIME isn't documented at all.  Fix this.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-3-ebiggers@kernel.orgReviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
上级 1e249cb5
......@@ -2084,8 +2084,8 @@ static inline void kiocb_clone(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct kiocb *kiocb_src,
/*
* Inode state bits. Protected by inode->i_lock
*
* Three bits determine the dirty state of the inode, I_DIRTY_SYNC,
* I_DIRTY_DATASYNC and I_DIRTY_PAGES.
* Four bits determine the dirty state of the inode: I_DIRTY_SYNC,
* I_DIRTY_DATASYNC, I_DIRTY_PAGES, and I_DIRTY_TIME.
*
* Four bits define the lifetime of an inode. Initially, inodes are I_NEW,
* until that flag is cleared. I_WILL_FREE, I_FREEING and I_CLEAR are set at
......@@ -2094,12 +2094,20 @@ static inline void kiocb_clone(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct kiocb *kiocb_src,
* Two bits are used for locking and completion notification, I_NEW and I_SYNC.
*
* I_DIRTY_SYNC Inode is dirty, but doesn't have to be written on
* fdatasync(). i_atime is the usual cause.
* I_DIRTY_DATASYNC Data-related inode changes pending. We keep track of
* fdatasync() (unless I_DIRTY_DATASYNC is also set).
* Timestamp updates are the usual cause.
* I_DIRTY_DATASYNC Data-related inode changes pending. We keep track of
* these changes separately from I_DIRTY_SYNC so that we
* don't have to write inode on fdatasync() when only
* mtime has changed in it.
* e.g. the timestamps have changed.
* I_DIRTY_PAGES Inode has dirty pages. Inode itself may be clean.
* I_DIRTY_TIME The inode itself only has dirty timestamps, and the
* lazytime mount option is enabled. We keep track of this
* separately from I_DIRTY_SYNC in order to implement
* lazytime. This gets cleared if I_DIRTY_INODE
* (I_DIRTY_SYNC and/or I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) gets set. I.e.
* either I_DIRTY_TIME *or* I_DIRTY_INODE can be set in
* i_state, but not both. I_DIRTY_PAGES may still be set.
* I_NEW Serves as both a mutex and completion notification.
* New inodes set I_NEW. If two processes both create
* the same inode, one of them will release its inode and
......
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