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authorZach Brown <zab@redhat.com>2013-05-08 03:18:25 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-05-08 05:38:27 +0400
commit41003a7bcfed1255032e1e7c7b487e505b22e298 (patch)
treeb09cb3e5efaeaabbee5a27daff490f77c78aa27b /include/linux/aio.h
parenta80bf61ef36da48285850974f30700d1e8efbfc0 (diff)
downloadlinux-41003a7bcfed1255032e1e7c7b487e505b22e298.tar.xz
aio: remove retry-based AIO
This removes the retry-based AIO infrastructure now that nothing in tree is using it. We want to remove retry-based AIO because it is fundemantally unsafe. It retries IO submission from a kernel thread that has only assumed the mm of the submitting task. All other task_struct references in the IO submission path will see the kernel thread, not the submitting task. This design flaw means that nothing of any meaningful complexity can use retry-based AIO. This removes all the code and data associated with the retry machinery. The most significant benefit of this is the removal of the locking around the unused run list in the submission path. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com> Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/aio.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/aio.h22
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/aio.h b/include/linux/aio.h
index b46a09f73f1d..019204e46c11 100644
--- a/include/linux/aio.h
+++ b/include/linux/aio.h
@@ -14,18 +14,12 @@ struct kioctx;
#define KIOCB_SYNC_KEY (~0U)
/* ki_flags bits */
-#define KIF_KICKED 1
#define KIF_CANCELLED 2
-#define kiocbTryKick(iocb) test_and_set_bit(KIF_KICKED, &(iocb)->ki_flags)
-
-#define kiocbSetKicked(iocb) set_bit(KIF_KICKED, &(iocb)->ki_flags)
#define kiocbSetCancelled(iocb) set_bit(KIF_CANCELLED, &(iocb)->ki_flags)
-#define kiocbClearKicked(iocb) clear_bit(KIF_KICKED, &(iocb)->ki_flags)
#define kiocbClearCancelled(iocb) clear_bit(KIF_CANCELLED, &(iocb)->ki_flags)
-#define kiocbIsKicked(iocb) test_bit(KIF_KICKED, &(iocb)->ki_flags)
#define kiocbIsCancelled(iocb) test_bit(KIF_CANCELLED, &(iocb)->ki_flags)
/* is there a better place to document function pointer methods? */
@@ -52,18 +46,8 @@ struct kioctx;
* not ask the method again -- ki_retry must ensure forward progress.
* aio_complete() must be called once and only once in the future, multiple
* calls may result in undefined behaviour.
- *
- * If ki_retry returns -EIOCBRETRY it has made a promise that kick_iocb()
- * will be called on the kiocb pointer in the future. This may happen
- * through generic helpers that associate kiocb->ki_wait with a wait
- * queue head that ki_retry uses via current->io_wait. It can also happen
- * with custom tracking and manual calls to kick_iocb(), though that is
- * discouraged. In either case, kick_iocb() must be called once and only
- * once. ki_retry must ensure forward progress, the AIO core will wait
- * indefinitely for kick_iocb() to be called.
*/
struct kiocb {
- struct list_head ki_run_list;
unsigned long ki_flags;
int ki_users;
unsigned ki_key; /* id of this request */
@@ -160,7 +144,6 @@ static inline unsigned aio_ring_avail(struct aio_ring_info *info,
struct kioctx {
atomic_t users;
int dead;
- struct mm_struct *mm;
/* This needs improving */
unsigned long user_id;
@@ -172,15 +155,12 @@ struct kioctx {
int reqs_active;
struct list_head active_reqs; /* used for cancellation */
- struct list_head run_list; /* used for kicked reqs */
/* sys_io_setup currently limits this to an unsigned int */
unsigned max_reqs;
struct aio_ring_info ring_info;
- struct delayed_work wq;
-
struct rcu_head rcu_head;
};
@@ -188,7 +168,6 @@ struct kioctx {
#ifdef CONFIG_AIO
extern ssize_t wait_on_sync_kiocb(struct kiocb *iocb);
extern int aio_put_req(struct kiocb *iocb);
-extern void kick_iocb(struct kiocb *iocb);
extern int aio_complete(struct kiocb *iocb, long res, long res2);
struct mm_struct;
extern void exit_aio(struct mm_struct *mm);
@@ -197,7 +176,6 @@ extern long do_io_submit(aio_context_t ctx_id, long nr,
#else
static inline ssize_t wait_on_sync_kiocb(struct kiocb *iocb) { return 0; }
static inline int aio_put_req(struct kiocb *iocb) { return 0; }
-static inline void kick_iocb(struct kiocb *iocb) { }
static inline int aio_complete(struct kiocb *iocb, long res, long res2) { return 0; }
struct mm_struct;
static inline void exit_aio(struct mm_struct *mm) { }