linux-kernel - Re: [patch] convert aio event reap to use atomic-op instead of spin

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Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:29:28 -0700
From:	"Ken Chen" <kenchen@...gle.com>
To:	"Zach Brown" <zach.brown@...cle.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-aio@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] convert aio event reap to use atomic-op instead of spin_lock

On 4/11/07, Ken Chen <kenchen@...gle.com> wrote:
> On 4/11/07, Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com> wrote:
> > First, I'll NAK this and all AIO patches until the patch description
> > says that it's been run through the regression tests that we've started
> > collecting in autotest.  They're trivial to run, never fear:
>
> OK.  I will run those regression tests.

Unfortunately, the aio_dio_bugs test in autotest has bug in it :-(
We need stress test the "test code".

on stock 2.6.21-rc6 kernel:

[rock-me-baby]$ cd autotest/tests/aio_dio_bugs/src
[rock-me-baby]$ make
[rock-me-baby]$ ./aio-free-ring-with-bogus-nr-pages
aio-free-ring-with-bogus-nr-pages: Error: io_setup returned -22,
expected -ENOMEM

hmm???  The problem is that the test code forgot to initialized ctx
variable and in the kernel, sys_io_setup returns EINVAL if user
address contain none-zero value.

I will submit the following patch to autotest to correct the test code.

--- aio-free-ring-with-bogus-nr-pages.c.orig	2007-04-11 23:57:45 -0700
+++ aio-free-ring-with-bogus-nr-pages.c	2007-04-11 23:57:59 -0700
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 int main(int __attribute__((unused)) argc, char **argv)
 {
 	long res;
-	io_context_t ctx;
+	io_context_t ctx = 0;
 	void* map;

 	while (1) {
-
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