diff -urNp --exclude CVS --exclude BitKeeper x-ref/mm/filemap.c x/mm/filemap.c
--- x-ref/mm/filemap.c	2003-07-17 01:23:37.000000000 +0200
+++ x/mm/filemap.c	2003-07-17 01:25:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -3222,6 +3222,15 @@ sync_failure:
 	goto done;
 }
 
+static void update_inode_times(struct inode *inode) 
+{
+	time_t now = CURRENT_TIME;
+	if (inode->i_ctime != now || inode->i_mtime != now) {
+	    inode->i_ctime = inode->i_mtime = now;
+	    mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
+	} 
+}
+
 ssize_t
 do_generic_direct_write(struct file *file,const char *buf,size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
@@ -3243,8 +3252,7 @@ do_generic_direct_write(struct file *fil
 		BUG();
 
 	remove_suid(inode);
-	inode->i_ctime = inode->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME;
-	mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
+	update_inode_times(inode);
 
 	written = generic_file_direct_IO(WRITE, file, (char *) buf, count, pos);
 	if (written > 0) {