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| author | Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> | 2023-03-25 09:22:32 +0100 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2023-03-27 13:51:32 +0200 |
| commit | d98ffa1aca264ce547b9135135f83d81cfe4345f (patch) | |
| tree | 96d0879eb92883753a49740f9578cc04b5719cfa | |
| parent | dc7cb2d29805fe4fa4000fc0b09740fc24c93408 (diff) | |
Update relatime comments to include equality
relatime also updates atime if the previous atime is equal to one or
both of the ctime and mtime; a non-strict interpretation of "earlier
than" and "younger than" in the comments allows this, but for clarity,
this makes it explicit.
Pointed out by "epiii2" and "ctrl-alt-delor" in
https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/740862/86440.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/inode.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 4558dc2f1355..3ec5a8f7b644 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -1804,8 +1804,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bmap); /* * With relative atime, only update atime if the previous atime is - * earlier than either the ctime or mtime or if at least a day has - * passed since the last atime update. + * earlier than or equal to either the ctime or mtime, + * or if at least a day has passed since the last atime update. */ static int relatime_need_update(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct inode *inode, struct timespec64 now) @@ -1814,12 +1814,12 @@ static int relatime_need_update(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct inode *inode, if (!(mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_RELATIME)) return 1; /* - * Is mtime younger than atime? If yes, update atime: + * Is mtime younger than or equal to atime? If yes, update atime: */ if (timespec64_compare(&inode->i_mtime, &inode->i_atime) >= 0) return 1; /* - * Is ctime younger than atime? If yes, update atime: + * Is ctime younger than or equal to atime? If yes, update atime: */ if (timespec64_compare(&inode->i_ctime, &inode->i_atime) >= 0) return 1; |