diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 76980a9..108138d 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <linux/cdev.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
 #include <linux/inotify.h>
+#include <linux/mount.h>
 
 /*
  * This is needed for the following functions:
@@ -1189,14 +1190,22 @@
 	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
 	struct timespec now;
 
-	/* per-mountpoint checks will go here */
-	if (IS_NOATIME(inode))
-		return;
-	if (IS_NODIRATIME(inode) && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
-		return;
 	if (IS_RDONLY(inode))
 		return;
 
+	if ((inode->i_flags & S_NOATIME) ||
+	    (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_NOATIME) ||
+	    ((inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_NODIRATIME) && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)))
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * We may have a NULL vfsmount when coming from NFSD
+	 */
+	if (mnt &&
+	    ((mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOATIME) ||
+	     ((mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NODIRATIME) && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))))
+		return;
+
 	now = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb);
 	if (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_atime, &now)) {
 		inode->i_atime = now;
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index f0e353f..2ca6145 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -355,14 +355,14 @@
 		{ MS_SYNCHRONOUS, ",sync" },
 		{ MS_DIRSYNC, ",dirsync" },
 		{ MS_MANDLOCK, ",mand" },
-		{ MS_NOATIME, ",noatime" },
-		{ MS_NODIRATIME, ",nodiratime" },
 		{ 0, NULL }
 	};
 	static struct proc_fs_info mnt_info[] = {
 		{ MNT_NOSUID, ",nosuid" },
 		{ MNT_NODEV, ",nodev" },
 		{ MNT_NOEXEC, ",noexec" },
+		{ MNT_NOATIME, ",noatime" },
+		{ MNT_NODIRATIME, ",nodiratime" },
 		{ 0, NULL }
 	};
 	struct proc_fs_info *fs_infop;
@@ -1286,7 +1286,13 @@
 		mnt_flags |= MNT_NODEV;
 	if (flags & MS_NOEXEC)
 		mnt_flags |= MNT_NOEXEC;
-	flags &= ~(MS_NOSUID | MS_NOEXEC | MS_NODEV | MS_ACTIVE);
+	if (flags & MS_NOATIME)
+		mnt_flags |= MNT_NOATIME;
+	if (flags & MS_NODIRATIME)
+		mnt_flags |= MNT_NODIRATIME;
+
+	flags &= ~(MS_NOSUID | MS_NOEXEC | MS_NODEV | MS_ACTIVE |
+		   MS_NOATIME | MS_NODIRATIME);
 
 	/* ... and get the mountpoint */
 	retval = path_lookup(dir_name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &nd);
diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c
index 3e4ba9c..a77ee95 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c
@@ -950,11 +950,20 @@
 
 	/* Flush out writes to the server in order to update c/mtime */
 	nfs_sync_inode(inode, 0, 0, FLUSH_WAIT|FLUSH_NOCOMMIT);
-	if (__IS_FLG(inode, MS_NOATIME))
+
+	/*
+	 * We may force a getattr if the user cares about atime.
+	 *
+	 * Note that we only have to check the vfsmount flags here:
+	 *  - NFS always sets S_NOATIME by so checking it would give a
+	 *    bogus result
+	 *  - NFS never sets MS_NOATIME or MS_NODIRATIME so there is
+	 *    no point in checking those.
+	 */
+ 	if ((mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOATIME) ||
+ 	    ((mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NODIRATIME) && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)))
 		need_atime = 0;
-	else if (__IS_FLG(inode, MS_NODIRATIME) && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
-		need_atime = 0;
-	/* We may force a getattr if the user cares about atime */
+
 	if (need_atime)
 		err = __nfs_revalidate_inode(NFS_SERVER(inode), inode);
 	else
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c
index 41c478b..97fb147 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@
 #include <linux/xattr.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 
+#define IS_NOATIME(inode) ((inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_NOATIME) ||	\
+	(S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_NODIRATIME))
+
 /*
  * Change the requested timestamp in the given inode.
  * We don't lock across timestamp updates, and we don't log them but