On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 06:26:39PM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: > >> The upcoming aio poll support would like to be able to complete the > >> iocb inline from the cancellation context, but that would cause > >> a lock order reversal. Add support for optionally moving the cancelation > >> outside the context lock to avoid this reversal. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > > > > Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Actually, let's move these two defines: > > #define AIO_IOCB_DELAYED_CANCEL (1 << 0) > #define AIO_IOCB_CANCELLED (1 << 1) > > to include/linux/aio.h so that drivers outside of fs/aio.c can make use > of them. struct aio_kiocb is private to aio.c, so just exposing them won't do anything useful. If we really need these elsewhere we'll need to come up with a proper interface. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
