fs: make sure the timestamps for lazytime inodes eventually get written

Jan Kara pointed out that if there is an inode which is constantly
getting dirtied with I_DIRTY_PAGES, an inode with an updated timestamp
will never be written since inode->dirtied_when is constantly getting
updated.  We fix this by adding an extra field to the inode,
dirtied_time_when, so inodes with a stale dirtytime can get detected
and handled.

In addition, if we have a dirtytime inode caused by an atime update,
and there is no write activity on the file system, we need to have a
secondary system to make sure these inodes get written out.  We do
this by setting up a second delayed work structure which wakes up the
CPU much more rarely compared to writeback_expire_centisecs.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index b4d71b5e1ff2..f4131e8ead74 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -604,6 +604,7 @@ struct inode {
 	struct mutex		i_mutex;
 
 	unsigned long		dirtied_when;	/* jiffies of first dirtying */
+	unsigned long		dirtied_time_when;
 
 	struct hlist_node	i_hash;
 	struct list_head	i_wb_list;	/* backing dev IO list */