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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:24:33 +0100 From: Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@...l.net> To: Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-aio <linux-aio@...ck.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>, Jean Pierre Dion <jean-pierre.dion@...l.net>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 3/4][AIO] - AIO completion signal notification On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:22:15 -0800 Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com> wrote: > > OK, looking at this, there's something bothering me: io_submit_one() needs > > a pointer to the user iocb in order to push back the iocb->ki_key to userspace, > > as well as storing the user_iocb pointer into iocb->ki_obj. > > Why can't it continue to do what it does today? Both of those uses of > the user_iocb pointer involve fixed-width fields and don't need compat help. Aah, right, thanks. > > > So I think that some of the logic in io_submit_one() must be moved up to > > sys_io_submit(), including the aio_get_req() call. > > I don't see why that would be needed. Not anymore, indeed. Thanks, Sébastien. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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