Add a strictatime mount option
Add support for explicitly requesting full atime updates. This makes it
possible for kernels to default to relatime but still allow userspace to
override it.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 06f8e63..d0659ec 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -780,6 +780,7 @@
{ MNT_NOATIME, ",noatime" },
{ MNT_NODIRATIME, ",nodiratime" },
{ MNT_RELATIME, ",relatime" },
+ { MNT_STRICTATIME, ",strictatime" },
{ 0, NULL }
};
const struct proc_fs_info *fs_infop;
@@ -1932,11 +1933,14 @@
mnt_flags |= MNT_NODIRATIME;
if (flags & MS_RELATIME)
mnt_flags |= MNT_RELATIME;
+ if (flags & MS_STRICTATIME)
+ mnt_flags &= ~(MNT_RELATIME | MNT_NOATIME);
if (flags & MS_RDONLY)
mnt_flags |= MNT_READONLY;
flags &= ~(MS_NOSUID | MS_NOEXEC | MS_NODEV | MS_ACTIVE |
- MS_NOATIME | MS_NODIRATIME | MS_RELATIME| MS_KERNMOUNT);
+ MS_NOATIME | MS_NODIRATIME | MS_RELATIME| MS_KERNMOUNT |
+ MS_STRICTATIME);
/* ... and get the mountpoint */
retval = kern_path(dir_name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);