Merge tag 'lazytime_for_v5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs

Pull lazytime updates from Jan Kara:
 "Cleanups of the lazytime handling in the writeback code making rules
  for calling ->dirty_inode() filesystem handlers saner"

* tag 'lazytime_for_v5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  ext4: simplify i_state checks in __ext4_update_other_inode_time()
  gfs2: don't worry about I_DIRTY_TIME in gfs2_fsync()
  fs: improve comments for writeback_single_inode()
  fs: drop redundant check from __writeback_single_inode()
  fs: clean up __mark_inode_dirty() a bit
  fs: pass only I_DIRTY_INODE flags to ->dirty_inode
  fs: don't call ->dirty_inode for lazytime timestamp updates
  fat: only specify I_DIRTY_TIME when needed in fat_update_time()
  fs: only specify I_DIRTY_TIME when needed in generic_update_time()
  fs: correctly document the inode dirty flags

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
index 18d69a4559d6..a4d64b1b4295 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
@@ -270,7 +270,10 @@ or bottom half).
 	->alloc_inode.
 
 ``dirty_inode``
-	this method is called by the VFS to mark an inode dirty.
+	this method is called by the VFS when an inode is marked dirty.
+	This is specifically for the inode itself being marked dirty,
+	not its data.  If the update needs to be persisted by fdatasync(),
+	then I_DIRTY_DATASYNC will be set in the flags argument.
 
 ``write_inode``
 	this method is called when the VFS needs to write an inode to