From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [patch] eventfd - revised interface and cleanups Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:03:13 +0300 Message-ID: <4A410AD1.8080304@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Gregory Haskins , Rusty Russell , Benjamin LaHaise To: Davide Libenzi Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 06/23/2009 07:47 PM, Davide Libenzi wrote: > The following patch changes the eventfd interface to de-couple the eventfd > memory context, from the file pointer instance. > Without such change, there is no clean way to racely free handle the > POLLHUP event sent when the last instance of the file* goes away. > Also, now the internal eventfd APIs are using the eventfd context instead > of the file*. > Another cleanup this patch does, is making AIO select EVENTFD, instead of > adding a bunch of empty function stubs inside eventfd.h. > > Andrew, this better go via Avi and the KVM tree, since they have patches > that will be based on the new interface. > The kvm patches will only be ready for 2.6.32. Can this go in 2.6.31 now, and we'll meet in 10 weeks? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function