Make relatime default

Change the default behaviour of the kernel to use relatime for all
filesystems. This can be overridden with the "strictatime" mount
option.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index d0659ec291c..f0e75309735 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1920,6 +1920,9 @@ long do_mount(char *dev_name, char *dir_name, char *type_page,
         if (data_page)
                 ((char *)data_page)[PAGE_SIZE - 1] = 0;
 
+        /* Default to relatime */
+        mnt_flags |= MNT_RELATIME;
+
         /* Separate the per-mountpoint flags */
         if (flags & MS_NOSUID)
                 mnt_flags |= MNT_NOSUID;
@@ -1931,8 +1934,6 @@ long do_mount(char *dev_name, char *dir_name, char *type_page,
                 mnt_flags |= MNT_NOATIME;
         if (flags & MS_NODIRATIME)
                 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)