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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2007-10-18 03:04:56 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-18 14:37:20 -0700
commit6212e3a388fdda3f19fa660ef5a30edf54d1dcfd (patch)
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Remove struct task_struct::io_wait
Hell knows what happened in commit 63b05203af57e7de4f3bb63b8b81d43bc196d32b during 2.6.9 development. Commit introduced io_wait field which remained write-only than and still remains write-only. Also garbage collect macros which "use" io_wait. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/aio.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/aio.c16
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index d02f43b50a3d..f12db415c0f6 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -710,18 +710,9 @@ static ssize_t aio_run_iocb(struct kiocb *iocb)
/*
* Now we are all set to call the retry method in async
- * context. By setting this thread's io_wait context
- * to point to the wait queue entry inside the currently
- * running iocb for the duration of the retry, we ensure
- * that async notification wakeups are queued by the
- * operation instead of blocking waits, and when notified,
- * cause the iocb to be kicked for continuation (through
- * the aio_wake_function callback).
+ * context.
*/
- BUG_ON(current->io_wait != NULL);
- current->io_wait = &iocb->ki_wait;
ret = retry(iocb);
- current->io_wait = NULL;
if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY && ret != -EIOCBQUEUED) {
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&iocb->ki_wait.task_list));
@@ -1508,10 +1499,7 @@ static ssize_t aio_setup_iocb(struct kiocb *kiocb)
* Simply triggers a retry of the operation via kick_iocb.
*
* This callback is specified in the wait queue entry in
- * a kiocb (current->io_wait points to this wait queue
- * entry when an aio operation executes; it is used
- * instead of a synchronous wait when an i/o blocking
- * condition is encountered during aio).
+ * a kiocb.
*
* Note:
* This routine is executed with the wait queue lock held.