Since IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 does not require any
association of file times with symbolic links,
there is no requirement that file times be
updated by readlink() states [1].

stat on symlink file was generating a readlink
fop on one of the subvolumes of ec set which
in turn updates atime on that subvolume. This
causes mdata xattr to be different across ec
set and hence self heal fails. So based on [1],
atime is no longer updated by readlink fop.

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/readlink.html

Backport of:
  > Patch: https://review.gluster.org/#/c/20311/
  > BUG: 1592509
  > Change-Id: I08bd3ca3bdb222bd18160b1aa58fc2f7630c8083
  > Signed-off-by: Kotresh HR <khiremat@redhat.com>
  (cherry picked from commit c097a7894d458e33a41f6db6092677108ef30fec)

fixes: bz#1593536
Change-Id: I08bd3ca3bdb222bd18160b1aa58fc2f7630c8083
Signed-off-by: Kotresh HR <khiremat@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit c097a7894d458e33a41f6db6092677108ef30fec)

Lookup on root was sending "/" as the path.
This will break the basename calculation in
loc_copy and hence lookup on root was failing
if the loc_copy was involved in the stack.

With ctime, a first lookup on root initiates
a metadata self heal because of ctime xattr
not being same on all afr subvolumes. This
results in loc_copy and hence the failure
of lookup.

Fix would be to send path with "." for the root.

Backport of:
  > Patch: https://review.gluster.org/#/c/20086/
  > BUG: 1582516
  > Change-Id: Iafe4b99f249a4f5034ad34c1d30590de0e35aa0d
(cherry picked from commit 3d38e4e47f129bdb36c3fbbd481dabe4ba4413d6)


fixes: bz#1583016
Change-Id: Iafe4b99f249a4f5034ad34c1d30590de0e35aa0d
Signed-off-by: Kotresh HR <khiremat@redhat.com>