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...+++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index d37fad91c8da..c005e7328fbb 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -2499,6 +2499,22 @@ struct timespec64 current_time(struct inode *inode) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(current_time); +/** + * inode_ctime_set_current - set the ctime to current_time + * @inode: inode + * + * Set the inode->i_ctime to the current value for the inode. Returns + * the current value that was assigned to i_ctime. + */ +struct timespec64 inode_ctime_set_current(struct inode *inode) +{ + struct timespec64 now = current_time(...

I've been working on a patchset to change how the inode->i_ctime is accessed in order to give us conditional, high-res timestamps for the ctime and mtime. struct timespec64 has unused bits in it that we can use to implement this. In order to do that however, we need to wrap all accesses of inode->i_ctime to ensure that bits used as flags are appropriately handled. This patchset first