From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:00:36 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write Message-Id: <20070326140036.f3352f81.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:10:21 +0200 Miklos Szeredi wrote: > This patch makes writing to shared memory mappings update st_ctime and > st_mtime as defined by SUSv3: Boy this is complicated. Is there a simpler way of doing all this? Say, we define a new page flag PG_dirtiedbywrite and we do SetPageDirtiedByWrite() inside write() and ClearPageDirtiedByWrite() whenever we propagate pte-dirtiness into page-dirtiness. Then, when performing writeback we look to see if any of the dirty pages are !PageDirtiedByWrite() and, if so, we update [mc]time to current-time. Or something like that - I'm just thinking out loud and picking holes in the above doesn't shut me up ;) We're adding complexity and some overhead and we're losing our recent msync() simplifications and this all hurts. Is there some other way? I think burning a page flag to avoid this additional complexity would be worthwhile. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org