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Message-ID: <2023062208-animosity-squabble-c1ba@gregkh>
Date:   Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:10:00 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, leit@...a.com,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Steve French <stfrench@...rosoft.com>,
        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Simon Ser <contact@...rsion.fr>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] io_uring: Add io_uring command support for sockets

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 08:02:37AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 07:20:48AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 04:21:26PM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> > > Enable io_uring commands on network sockets. Create two new
> > > SOCKET_URING_OP commands that will operate on sockets. Since these
> > > commands are similar to ioctl, uses the _IO{R,W} helpers to embedded the
> > > argument size and operation direction. Also allocates a unused ioctl
> > > chunk for uring command usage.
> > > 
> > > In order to call ioctl on sockets, use the file_operations->uring_cmd
> > > callbacks, and map it to a uring socket function, which handles the
> > > SOCKET_URING_OP accordingly, and calls socket ioctls.
> > > 
> > > This patches was tested by creating a new test case in liburing.
> > > Link: https://github.com/leitao/liburing/commit/3340908b742c6a26f662a0679c4ddf9df84ef431
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
> > > ---
> > 
> > Isn't this a new version of an older patch?
> 
> Yes, this should have tagged as V2.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230406144330.1932798-1-leitao@debian.org/#r

Great, also add what changed below the --- line please.

> > > --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> > > +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> > > @@ -361,6 +361,7 @@ Code  Seq#    Include File                                           Comments
> > >  0xCB  00-1F                                                          CBM serial IEC bus in development:
> > >                                                                       <mailto:michael.klein@...fin.lb.shuttle.de>
> > >  0xCC  00-0F  drivers/misc/ibmvmc.h                                   pseries VMC driver
> > > +0xCC  A0-BF  uapi/linux/io_uring.h                                   io_uring cmd subsystem
> > 
> > This change is nice, but not totally related to this specific one,
> > shouldn't it be separate?
> 
> This is related to this patch, since I am using it below, in the
> following part:
> 
> 	+#define SOCKET_URING_OP_SIOCINQ _IOR(0xcc, 0xa0, int)
> 	+#define SOCKET_URING_OP_SIOCOUTQ _IOR(0xcc, 0xa1, int)
> 
> Should I have a different patch, even if they are related?

Yes, as you are not using the 0xa2-0xbf range that you just carved out
here, right?  Where did those numbers come from?

thanks,

greg k-h