summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/fs/read_write.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorZach Brown <zab@redhat.com>2013-05-07 16:18:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-05-07 18:38:27 -0700
commit41003a7bcfed1255032e1e7c7b487e505b22e298 (patch)
treeb09cb3e5efaeaabbee5a27daff490f77c78aa27b /fs/read_write.c
parenta80bf61ef36da48285850974f30700d1e8efbfc0 (diff)
downloadlinux-stable-41003a7bcfed1255032e1e7c7b487e505b22e298.tar.gz
linux-stable-41003a7bcfed1255032e1e7c7b487e505b22e298.tar.bz2
linux-stable-41003a7bcfed1255032e1e7c7b487e505b22e298.zip
aio: remove retry-based AIO
This removes the retry-based AIO infrastructure now that nothing in tree is using it. We want to remove retry-based AIO because it is fundemantally unsafe. It retries IO submission from a kernel thread that has only assumed the mm of the submitting task. All other task_struct references in the IO submission path will see the kernel thread, not the submitting task. This design flaw means that nothing of any meaningful complexity can use retry-based AIO. This removes all the code and data associated with the retry machinery. The most significant benefit of this is the removal of the locking around the unused run list in the submission path. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com> Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/read_write.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/read_write.c34
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 90ba3b350e50..bce289afd21a 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -329,16 +329,6 @@ int rw_verify_area(int read_write, struct file *file, loff_t *ppos, size_t count
return count > MAX_RW_COUNT ? MAX_RW_COUNT : count;
}
-static void wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(struct kiocb *iocb)
-{
- set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
- if (!kiocbIsKicked(iocb))
- schedule();
- else
- kiocbClearKicked(iocb);
- __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
-}
-
ssize_t do_sync_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct iovec iov = { .iov_base = buf, .iov_len = len };
@@ -350,13 +340,7 @@ ssize_t do_sync_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t *pp
kiocb.ki_left = len;
kiocb.ki_nbytes = len;
- for (;;) {
- ret = filp->f_op->aio_read(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos);
- if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY)
- break;
- wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
- }
-
+ ret = filp->f_op->aio_read(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos);
if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
*ppos = kiocb.ki_pos;
@@ -406,13 +390,7 @@ ssize_t do_sync_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t len, lof
kiocb.ki_left = len;
kiocb.ki_nbytes = len;
- for (;;) {
- ret = filp->f_op->aio_write(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos);
- if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY)
- break;
- wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
- }
-
+ ret = filp->f_op->aio_write(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos);
if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
*ppos = kiocb.ki_pos;
@@ -592,13 +570,7 @@ static ssize_t do_sync_readv_writev(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov,
kiocb.ki_left = len;
kiocb.ki_nbytes = len;
- for (;;) {
- ret = fn(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, kiocb.ki_pos);
- if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY)
- break;
- wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
- }
-
+ ret = fn(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, kiocb.ki_pos);
if (ret == -EIOCBQUEUED)
ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
*ppos = kiocb.ki_pos;