On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:29:26AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:24:43AM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 08:32:31AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > This is the io_getevents equivalent of ppoll/pselect and allows to > > > properly mix signals and aio completions (especially with IOCB_CMD_POLL) > > > and atomically executes the following sequence: > > > > > > sigset_t origmask; > > > > > > pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &sigmask, &origmask); > > > ret = io_getevents(ctx, min_nr, nr, events, timeout); > > > pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &origmask, NULL); > > > > > > Note that unlike many other signal related calls we do not pass a sigmask > > > size, as that would get us to 7 arguments, which aren't easily supported > > > by the syscall infrastructure. It seems a lot less painful to just add a > > > new syscall variant in the unlikely case we're going to increase the > > > sigset size. > > > > Do we have a manpage for this new syscall and maybe a test program for > > it so we can exercise it as part of the kselftests? > > The man page and test cases where submitted to libaio: > > http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/libaio.git/shortlog/refs/heads/aio-poll > > In the meantime the man page apparently moved to man-pages, I'll do that > work once we make some forward progress. Great! > > And do we really need a compat thunk for a new syscall? Ugh, I guess > > it's needed due to the long mess, right? No way to just define it the > > same way for both arch sizes? > > Not without making it a pain to use. It should be a drop-in enhancement > to the existing aio abis, which all work on these types. Ok, make sense, thanks. greg k-h -- 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
