Re: Revert "aio: fix aio request leak when events are reaped by user space"

[Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 02:43:56PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ugh.
> 
> Ben, at this point my gut feel is that we should just revert the
> original "fix", and you should take a much deeper look at this all.
> The original "fix" was more broken then the leak it purported to fix,
> and now the patch to fix your fix has gone through two iterations and
> *still* Dan is finding bugs in it.  I'm getting the feeling that this
> code needs more thinking than you are actually putting into it.

That's why I had't sent it out as an official [PATCH] just yet.  I think 
things worked out okay since the untested patch I sent out pointed Dan in 
the right direction and he was able to put some effort into it while I 
didn't have to immediate time to do so.  I just put in a few hours to 
polish off the final details on this fix now, and it should be coming your 
way as soon as I get an ack back from Dan.  Hopefully Kent can review it 
as well, since I had to modify the approach to try to retain the advantages 
of his batched reqs_available handling and avoid bouncing the cacheline 
ctx->completion_lock is on during io_submit().  Cheers,

		-ben

>                 Linus

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