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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] fs: remove the never implemented aio_fsync file operation
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 15:25:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161101142534.GC17142@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161031202521.GN22126@dastard>

On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 07:25:21AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> That sounds like a problem with your fix - it should work
> regardless of whether a valid/implemented AIO function is called
> or not, right? There's no difference between an invalid command,
> IOCB_CMD_FSYNC where ->aio_fsync() is null, or some supported
> command that immediately returns -EIO, the end result should
> be the same...

We would need the same increased file refcount if aio_fsync actually
was implemented using -EIOCBQUEUED returns.  We wouldn't nessecarily need
it without that.

> > I'm not going to complain about a proper implementation, but right now
> > we don't have any, and I'm not even sure the method signature is
> > all that suitable.  E.g. for the in-kernel users we'd really want a 
> > ranged fsync like the normal fsync anyway.
> 
> You mean like this version I posted a year ago:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/29/517

I'd love to see that one in - but it doesn't use the aio_fsync method
either..

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-01 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-30 16:42 aio fixes for use after free and freeze protection Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-30 16:42 ` [PATCH 1/4] aio: hold an extra file reference over AIO read/write operations Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-30 16:42 ` [PATCH 2/4] fs: remove the never implemented aio_fsync file operation Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-30 23:23   ` Dave Chinner
2016-10-31 13:07     ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-31 20:25       ` Dave Chinner
2016-11-01  1:30         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-01 14:30           ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-01 15:07             ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-01 14:25         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-10-30 16:42 ` [PATCH 3/4] fs: remove aio_run_iocb Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-30 16:42 ` [PATCH 4/4] aio: fix freeze protection of aio writes Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-30 16:58 ` aio fixes for use after free and freeze protection Al Viro
2016-10-30 17:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-09  2:41   ` Christoph Hellwig

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