mirror_zfs/module/os/linux
Andrew Walker 312bdab0f5
Add handling for STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE
This commit adds handling for the STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE so that
we can properly surface the ZFS znode sequence to NFS clients via
knfsd.

If knfsd does not have STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE in statx result then
it will synthesize the NFS change_info4 structure and related
change4id values algorithmically based on the ctime value of the
file. Since internally ZFS is using ktime_get_coarse_real_ts64()
for the timestamp calculation here it introduces the possiblity
that the change will not increment the change4id of directories
/ files causing a failure in the client to invalidate its attr
cache (among other things). See RFC 8881 Section 10.8 for
discussion of how clients may implement name and directory
caching.

Notable in this commit is that we are not initializing the
inode->i_version to the znode->z_seq number. The reason for this
is that we're intentionally not setting `SB_I_VERSION`. This
indicates that the filesystem manages its own i_version and
so it is not populated in the generic_fillattr.

The following compares tight loop of setattr over NFSv4
protocol while traching nfsd4_change_attribute.

Before change:
inode, change_attribute
4723, 7590032215978780890
4723, 7590032215978780890
4723, 7590032215978780890
4723, 7590032215982780865
4723, 7590032215982780865

After change:
inode, change_attribute
7602, 7590032992517123951
7602, 7590032992517123952
7602, 7590032992517123953
7602, 7590032992517123954
7602, 7590032992517123955

Reviewed-by: Ameer Hamza <ahamza@ixsystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Motin <alexander.motin@TrueNAS.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Walker <andrew.walker@truenas.com>
Closes #18097
2026-01-05 14:06:28 -08:00
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spl kmem: don't add __GFP_RECLAIMABLE for KM_VMEM allocations 2026-01-05 13:35:13 -08:00
zfs Add handling for STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE 2026-01-05 14:06:28 -08:00