+/** Merge the lock value block(&lvb) attributes from each of the stripes in a
+ * file into a single lvb. It is expected that the caller initializes the
+ * current atime, mtime, ctime to avoid regressing a more uptodate time on
+ * the local client.
+ *
+ * If @kms_only is set then we do not consider the recently seen size (rss)
+ * when updating the known minimum size (kms). Even when merging RSS, we will
+ * take the KMS value if it's larger. This prevents getattr from stomping on
+ * dirty cached pages which extend the file size. */
+int lov_merge_lvb(struct obd_export *exp,
+ struct lov_stripe_md *lsm, struct ost_lvb *lvb, int kms_only)
+{
+ int rc;
+ __u64 kms;
+
+ ENTRY;
+ rc = lov_merge_lvb_kms(lsm, lvb, &kms);
+ if (kms_only)
+ lvb->lvb_size = kms;
+ CDEBUG(D_INODE, "merged: %llu %llu %llu %llu %llu\n",
+ lvb->lvb_size, lvb->lvb_mtime, lvb->lvb_atime,
+ lvb->lvb_ctime, lvb->lvb_blocks);
+ RETURN(rc);
+}
+