linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/9] aio: implement io

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Date:   Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:24:43 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, Avi Kivity <avi@...lladb.com>,
        linux-aio@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] aio: implement io_pgetevents

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 08:32:31AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This is the io_getevents equivalent of ppoll/pselect and allows to
> properly mix signals and aio completions (especially with IOCB_CMD_POLL)
> and atomically executes the following sequence:
> 
> 	sigset_t origmask;
> 
> 	pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &sigmask, &origmask);
> 	ret = io_getevents(ctx, min_nr, nr, events, timeout);
> 	pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &origmask, NULL);
> 
> Note that unlike many other signal related calls we do not pass a sigmask
> size, as that would get us to 7 arguments, which aren't easily supported
> by the syscall infrastructure.  It seems a lot less painful to just add a
> new syscall variant in the unlikely case we're going to increase the
> sigset size.

Do we have a manpage for this new syscall and maybe a test program for
it so we can exercise it as part of the kselftests?

And do we really need a compat thunk for a new syscall?  Ugh, I guess
it's needed due to the long mess, right?  No way to just define it the
same way for both arch sizes?

Anyway, the code seems sane to me:

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>