Re: [PATCH liburing 3/3] man/io_uring_enter.2: add EACCES and EBADFD errors

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On 9/14/20 10:02 AM, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 09:38:25AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 9/14/20 2:05 AM, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 09:36:02AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> On 9/11/20 7:34 AM, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
>>>>> These new errors are added with the restriction series recently
>>>>> merged in io_uring (Linux 5.10).
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  man/io_uring_enter.2 | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/man/io_uring_enter.2 b/man/io_uring_enter.2
>>>>> index 5443d5f..4773dfd 100644
>>>>> --- a/man/io_uring_enter.2
>>>>> +++ b/man/io_uring_enter.2
>>>>> @@ -842,6 +842,16 @@ is set appropriately.
>>>>>  .PP
>>>>>  .SH ERRORS
>>>>>  .TP
>>>>> +.B EACCES
>>>>> +The
>>>>> +.I flags
>>>>> +field or
>>>>> +.I opcode
>>>>> +in a submission queue entry is not allowed due to registered restrictions.
>>>>> +See
>>>>> +.BR io_uring_register (2)
>>>>> +for details on how restrictions work.
>>>>> +.TP
>>>>>  .B EAGAIN
>>>>>  The kernel was unable to allocate memory for the request, or otherwise ran out
>>>>>  of resources to handle it. The application should wait for some completions and
>>>>> @@ -861,6 +871,14 @@ field in the submission queue entry is invalid, or the
>>>>>  flag was set in the submission queue entry, but no files were registered
>>>>>  with the io_uring instance.
>>>>>  .TP
>>>>> +.B EBADFD
>>>>> +The
>>>>> +.I fd
>>>>> +field in the submission queue entry is valid, but the io_uring ring is not
>>>>> +in the right state (enabled). See
>>>>> +.BR io_uring_register (2)
>>>>> +for details on how to enable the ring.
>>>>> +.TP
>>>>
>>>> I actually think some of this needs general updating. io_uring_enter()
>>>> will not return an error on behalf of an sqe, it'll only return an error
>>>> if one happened outside the context of a specific sqe. Any error
>>>> specific to an sqe will generate a cqe with the result.
>>>
>>> Mmm, right.
>>>
>>> For example in this case, EACCES is returned by a cqe and EBADFD is
>>> returned by io_uring_enter().
>>>
>>> Should we create 2 error sections?
>>
>> Yep, I think we should. One that describes that io_uring_enter() would
>> return in terms of errors, and one that describes cqe->res returns.
> 
> Yeah, that would be much better!
> 
>>
>> Are you up for this? Would be a great change, making it a lot more
>> accurate.
> 
> Sure! I'll prepare a patch with this change, and I'll also try to catch
> all possible return values, then I'll rebase this series on top of that.

Awesome! It'll be a really nice improvement.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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