Re: [PATCH 5/5] io_uring: add IORING_OP_WAITID support

Jens Axboe
2023-07-11T22:18:23Z

On 7/11/23 3:22 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 7/11/23 3:11?PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023, at 22:43, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> This adds support for an async version of waitid(2), in a fully async
>>> version. If an event isn't immediately available, wait for a callback
>>> to trigger a retry.
>>>
>>> The format of the sqe is as follows:
>>>
>>> sqe->len The 'which', the idtype being queried/waited for.
>>> sqe->fd The 'pid' (or id) being waited for.
>>> sqe->file_index The 'options' being set.
>>> sqe->addr2 A pointer to siginfo_t, if any, being filled in.
>>>
>>> buf_index, add3, and waitid_flags are reserved/unused for now.
>>> waitid_flags will be used for options for this request type. One
>>> interesting use case may be to add multi-shot support, so that the
>>> request stays armed and posts a notification every time a monitored
>>> process state change occurs.
>>>
>>> Note that this does not support rusage, on Arnd's recommendation.
>>>
>>> See the waitid(2) man page for details on the arguments.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
>>
>> Does this require argument conversion for compat tasks?
>>
>> Even without the rusage argument, I think the siginfo
>> remains incompatible with 32-bit tasks, unfortunately.
>
> Hmm yes good point, if compat_siginfo and siginfo are different, then it
> does need handling for that. Would be a trivial addition, I'll make that
> change. Thanks Arnd!

Should be fixed in the current version:

https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux/commit/?h=io_uring-waitid&id=08f3dc9b7cedbd20c0f215f25c9a7814c6c601cc

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Jens Axboe