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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/inode.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 5653fa42930b..628df5ba44a6 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4840,11 +4840,17 @@ int ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode) * If the inode is marked synchronous, we don't honour that here - doing * so would cause a commit on atime updates, which we don't bother doing. * We handle synchronous inodes at the highest possible level. + * + * If only the I_DIRTY_TIME flag is set, we can skip everything. If + * I_DIRTY_TIME and I_DIRTY_SYNC is set, the only inode fields we need + * to copy into the on-disk inode structure are the timestamp files. */ void ext4_dirty_inode(struct inode *inode, int flags) { handle_t *handle; + if (flags == I_DIRTY_TIME) + return; handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_INODE, 2); if (IS_ERR(handle)) goto out; |