On Friday 08 April 2016, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> This is a preparation patch to add range checking for inode
> timestamps.
> 
> Extend struct super_block to include information about the max
> and min inode times each filesystem can hold. These are dependent
> on the on-disk format of filesystems.
> 
> These range checks will be used to clamp timestamps to filesystem
> allowed ranges.
> 
> Individual filesystems do not have the same on disk format as
> the in memory inodes. Range checking and clamping times assigned
> to inodes will help keep in memory and on-disk timestamps to be
> in sync.
> 
> Another series will initialize these fields to appropriate values for
> every filesystem.
> 
> The fields are not used by vfs yet.
> The exact policy and behavior will be decided in a separate patch.
> 
> The original idea for the feature comes from the discussion:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/30/669
> 
> Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
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