nfsd: support ext4 i_version

ext4 supports a real NFSv4 change attribute, which is bumped whenever
the ctime would be updated, including times when two updates arrive
within a jiffy of each other.  (Note that although ext4 has space for
nanosecond-precision ctime, the real resolution is lower: it actually
uses jiffies as the time-source.)  This ensures clients will invalidate
their caches when they need to.

There is some fear that keeping the i_version up-to-date could have
performance drawbacks, so for now it's turned on only by a mount option.
We hope to do something better eventually.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nfsd/xdr4.h b/include/linux/nfsd/xdr4.h
index f80d6013fdc3..d0f050f01eca 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfsd/xdr4.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfsd/xdr4.h
@@ -64,10 +64,13 @@ static inline bool nfsd4_has_session(struct nfsd4_compound_state *cs)
 
 struct nfsd4_change_info {
         u32             atomic;
+        bool            change_supported;
         u32             before_ctime_sec;
         u32             before_ctime_nsec;
+        u64             before_change;
         u32             after_ctime_sec;
         u32             after_ctime_nsec;
+        u64             after_change;
 };
 
 struct nfsd4_access {
@@ -503,10 +506,16 @@ set_change_info(struct nfsd4_change_info *cinfo, struct svc_fh *fhp)
 {
         BUG_ON(!fhp->fh_pre_saved || !fhp->fh_post_saved);
         cinfo->atomic = 1;
-        cinfo->before_ctime_sec = fhp->fh_pre_ctime.tv_sec;
-        cinfo->before_ctime_nsec = fhp->fh_pre_ctime.tv_nsec;
-        cinfo->after_ctime_sec = fhp->fh_post_attr.ctime.tv_sec;
-        cinfo->after_ctime_nsec = fhp->fh_post_attr.ctime.tv_nsec;
+        cinfo->change_supported = IS_I_VERSION(fhp->fh_dentry->d_inode);
+        if (cinfo->change_supported) {
+                cinfo->before_change = fhp->fh_pre_change;
+                cinfo->after_change = fhp->fh_post_change;
+        } else {
+                cinfo->before_ctime_sec = fhp->fh_pre_ctime.tv_sec;
+                cinfo->before_ctime_nsec = fhp->fh_pre_ctime.tv_nsec;
+                cinfo->after_ctime_sec = fhp->fh_post_attr.ctime.tv_sec;
+                cinfo->after_ctime_nsec = fhp->fh_post_attr.ctime.tv_nsec;
+        }
 }
 
 int nfs4svc_encode_voidres(struct svc_rqst *, __be32 *, void *);