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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
	Bernhard Schmidt <berni@birkenwald.de>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-aio usable?
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:12:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100309141233.GA27443@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B961D7D.20107@redhat.com>

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:05:49PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.aio.general/2891
>>
>> It's missing compat_ioctl for some of the aio opcodes, namely
>> it's PREADV and PWRITE - the only ones used by kvm and the only
>> ones missing in kernel.
>>
>> As far as i can see, current code converts the iocb array just
>> fine, but does not touch iovec array used with p{read,write}v.
>>    
>
> Yikes, looks pretty bad.

No need for compat_ioctl handlers as there are no ioctls involved
in aio, we just need better compat versions of io_submit, which
by itself is a bit of an ioctl-like multiplexer.

Adding the vector compat might be a bit messy, but shouldn't be
too hard given that we already deal with this for native
(p)readv/(p)writev.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-09 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-08  1:46 linux-aio usable? Bernhard Schmidt
2010-03-08  9:10 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-08  9:48   ` Bernhard Schmidt
2010-03-08  9:48     ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-08 14:25       ` Dustin Kirkland
2010-03-08 14:26         ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-08 16:28           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-08 16:36             ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-08 13:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-08 20:11   ` Michael Tokarev
2010-03-08 20:19     ` Michael Tokarev
2010-03-09  9:08       ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-09  9:19         ` Michael Tokarev
2010-03-09 10:05           ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-09 14:12             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-03-08 21:27   ` Nikola Ciprich
2010-03-08 21:46     ` Brian Jackson
2010-03-09  9:09     ` Avi Kivity

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