linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] Revert "eventfd: only return events requested in poll

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jun 2018 07:15:31 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Avi Kivity <avi@...lladb.com>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, hch@....de,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Revert "eventfd: only return events requested in
        poll_mask()"

On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 11:31:41AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> This reverts commit 4d572d9f46507be8cfe326aa5bc3698babcbdfa7. It is
> superceded by the more general
> 2739b807b0885a09996659be82f813af219c7360 ("aio: only return events
> requested in poll_mask() for IOCB_CMD_POLL"). Unfortunately, hch
> nacked it on the bug report rather than on the patch itself, so it
> was picked up.

Note that even with that patch this patch is harmless, although indeed
not actually needed.