The ctime is not settable to arbitrary values. It always comes from the system clock, so we'll never stamp an inode with a value that can't be represented there. If we disregard people setting their system clock past the year 2262, there is no reason we can't replace the ctime fields with a ktime_t.
Switch the ctime fields to a single ktime_t. Move the i_generation down above i_fsnotify_mask and then move the i_version into the resulting 8 byte hole. This shrinks struct inode by 8 bytes total, and should improve the cache footprint as the i_version and ctime are usually updated together. The one downside I can see to switching to a ktime_t is that if someone has a filesystem with files on it that has ctimes outside the ktime_t range (before ~1678 AD or after ~2262 AD), we won't be able to display them properly in stat() without some special treatment in the filesystem. The operating assumption here is that that is not a practical problem. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]> --- include/linux/fs.h | 26 +++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 2fa06a4d197a..7110d6dc9aab 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -662,11 +662,10 @@ struct inode { loff_t i_size; time64_t i_atime_sec; time64_t i_mtime_sec; - time64_t i_ctime_sec; u32 i_atime_nsec; u32 i_mtime_nsec; - u32 i_ctime_nsec; - u32 i_generation; + ktime_t __i_ctime; + atomic64_t i_version; spinlock_t i_lock; /* i_blocks, i_bytes, maybe i_size */ unsigned short i_bytes; u8 i_blkbits; @@ -701,7 +700,6 @@ struct inode { struct hlist_head i_dentry; struct rcu_head i_rcu; }; - atomic64_t i_version; atomic64_t i_sequence; /* see futex */ atomic_t i_count; atomic_t i_dio_count; @@ -724,6 +722,8 @@ struct inode { }; + u32 i_generation; + #ifdef CONFIG_FSNOTIFY __u32 i_fsnotify_mask; /* all events this inode cares about */ /* 32-bit hole reserved for expanding i_fsnotify_mask */ @@ -1608,29 +1608,25 @@ static inline struct timespec64 inode_set_mtime(struct inode *inode, return inode_set_mtime_to_ts(inode, ts); } -static inline time64_t inode_get_ctime_sec(const struct inode *inode) +static inline struct timespec64 inode_get_ctime(const struct inode *inode) { - return inode->i_ctime_sec; + return ktime_to_timespec64(inode->__i_ctime); } -static inline long inode_get_ctime_nsec(const struct inode *inode) +static inline time64_t inode_get_ctime_sec(const struct inode *inode) { - return inode->i_ctime_nsec; + return inode_get_ctime(inode).tv_sec; } -static inline struct timespec64 inode_get_ctime(const struct inode *inode) +static inline long inode_get_ctime_nsec(const struct inode *inode) { - struct timespec64 ts = { .tv_sec = inode_get_ctime_sec(inode), - .tv_nsec = inode_get_ctime_nsec(inode) }; - - return ts; + return inode_get_ctime(inode).tv_nsec; } static inline struct timespec64 inode_set_ctime_to_ts(struct inode *inode, struct timespec64 ts) { - inode->i_ctime_sec = ts.tv_sec; - inode->i_ctime_nsec = ts.tv_nsec; + inode->__i_ctime = ktime_set(ts.tv_sec, ts.tv_nsec); return ts; } -- 2.45.2