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lazytime for XFS V2

From:  Christoph Hellwig <hch-AT-lst.de>
To:  linux-xfs-AT-vger.kernel.org
Subject:  lazytime for XFS V2
Date:  Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:57:35 -0800
Message-ID:  <20180228175737.317-1-hch@lst.de>
Cc:  linux-fsdevel-AT-vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso-AT-mit.edu>

Hi all,

this series implements the lazytime feature for XFS.  Unlike ext4 we don't
bother supporting the file system parsed text option as MS_LAZYTIME has
been supported by util-linux for a long time now.  The first patch is
needed to make sure XFS actually sees that a dirty inode was dirtied due
to lazy time, which is important for XFS as we don't otherwise use the
VFS inode dirty tracking for metadata.

Changes since V1:
 - fix i_version logging in xfs_vn_update_time,
 - document the racy I_DIRTY_TIME check


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