Add a strictatime mount option

Add support for explicitly requesting full atime updates. This makes it
possible for kernels to default to relatime but still allow userspace to
override it.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

fs/namespace.c

@@ -780,6 +780,7 @@ static void show_mnt_opts(struct seq_file *m, struct vfsmount *mnt)
 		{ MNT_NOATIME, ",noatime" },
 		{ MNT_NODIRATIME, ",nodiratime" },
 		{ MNT_RELATIME, ",relatime" },
+		{ MNT_STRICTATIME, ",strictatime" },
 		{ 0, NULL }
 	};
 	const struct proc_fs_info *fs_infop;
@@ -1932,11 +1933,14 @@ long do_mount(char *dev_name, char *dir_name, char *type_page,
 		mnt_flags |= MNT_NODIRATIME;
 	if (flags & MS_RELATIME)
 		mnt_flags |= MNT_RELATIME;
+	if (flags & MS_STRICTATIME)
+		mnt_flags &= ~(MNT_RELATIME | MNT_NOATIME);
 	if (flags & MS_RDONLY)
 		mnt_flags |= MNT_READONLY;
 
 	flags &= ~(MS_NOSUID | MS_NOEXEC | MS_NODEV | MS_ACTIVE |
-		   MS_NOATIME | MS_NODIRATIME | MS_RELATIME| MS_KERNMOUNT);
+		   MS_NOATIME | MS_NODIRATIME | MS_RELATIME| MS_KERNMOUNT |
+		   MS_STRICTATIME);
 
 	/* ... and get the mountpoint */
 	retval = kern_path(dir_name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);

include/linux/fs.h

@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
 #define MS_RELATIME	(1<<21)	/* Update atime relative to mtime/ctime. */
 #define MS_KERNMOUNT	(1<<22) /* this is a kern_mount call */
 #define MS_I_VERSION	(1<<23) /* Update inode I_version field */
+#define MS_STRICTATIME	(1<<24) /* Always perform atime updates */
 #define MS_ACTIVE	(1<<30)
 #define MS_NOUSER	(1<<31)
 

include/linux/mount.h

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ struct mnt_namespace;
 #define MNT_NODIRATIME	0x10
 #define MNT_RELATIME	0x20
 #define MNT_READONLY	0x40	/* does the user want this to be r/o? */
+#define MNT_STRICTATIME 0x80
 
 #define MNT_SHRINKABLE	0x100
 #define MNT_IMBALANCED_WRITE_COUNT	0x200 /* just for debugging */