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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
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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>
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diff --git a/include/linux/errno.h b/include/linux/errno.h
index f6bf082d4d4f..89627b9187f9 100644
--- a/include/linux/errno.h
+++ b/include/linux/errno.h
@@ -28,6 +28,5 @@
#define EBADTYPE 527 /* Type not supported by server */
#define EJUKEBOX 528 /* Request initiated, but will not complete before timeout */
#define EIOCBQUEUED 529 /* iocb queued, will get completion event */
-#define EIOCBRETRY 530 /* iocb queued, will trigger a retry */
#endif