Re: [PATCH 11/11] xfs: enable non-blocking timestamp updates

Chaitanya Kulkarni <[email protected]>
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On 12/22/25 16:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The lazytime path using the generic helpers can never block in XFS
> because there is no ->dirty_inode method that could block.  Allow
> non-blocking timestamp updates for this case by replacing
> generic_update_time with the open coded version without the S_NOWAIT
> check.
>
> Fixes: 66fa3cedf16a ("fs: Add async write file modification handling.")
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig<[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton<[email protected]>


Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <[email protected]>

-ck
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