Commit d98ffa1a authored by Stephen Kitt's avatar Stephen Kitt Committed by Christian Brauner

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: default avatarStephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
parent dc7cb2d2
......@@ -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;
......
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