On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 06:38:17PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 01:11:00PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:

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If you already have an inode and need to update the time on the inode
there is no way to do this properly.  Export this helper to allow file
systems to update time on the inode so the appropriate handler is
called, either ->update_time or generic_update_time.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>

I'd like to get ack from Christoph, though it's a simple change it's
still in another subsystem.

Not a big fan, but compared to the other options it seems like the
least bad option.  That being said I'm not the VFS maintainer anyway.