linux-kernel - Re: [patch 13/13] signal/timer/event fds v9

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Date:	Sun, 1 Apr 2007 10:23:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...o.co.il>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 13/13] signal/timer/event fds v9 - KAIO eventfd support
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
> > [also, minor nit: sys_eventfd() can legitimately return 0, but you're banning
> > its use in aio.  userspace could easily dup() and close(), but...]
> 
> Noone said that binary compatibility comes free ;)
> I'm truly open to other ways of integration, but I thought that binary 
> compatibility is the key here.

I would suggest taking "aio_reserved3" and turning it into

	__u32 aio_flags;
	__u32 aio_resfd;

if so. And then some bit in the "flags" field has to be set (say, 
"IOCB_FLAG_RESFB") to enable this codepath, instead of expecting that 
aio_resfd == 0 is special.

It's generally always a good thing to have a "flags" field anyway, exactly 
because it allows for future expansion. 

		Linus
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