Re: [PATCH 05/18] Add io_uring IO interface

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 6:57 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [please make sure linux-api and linux-man are CCed on new syscalls
> so that we get API experts to review them]

> > +static int io_import_iovec(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, int rw,
> > +                        const struct io_uring_sqe *sqe,
> > +                        struct iovec **iovec, struct iov_iter *iter)
> > +{
> > +     void __user *buf = u64_to_user_ptr(sqe->addr);
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> > +     if (ctx->compat)
> > +             return compat_import_iovec(rw, buf, sqe->len, UIO_FASTIOV,
> > +                                             iovec, iter);
> > +#endif
>
> I think we can just check in_compat_syscall() here, which means we
> can kill the ->compat member, and the separate compat version of the
> setup syscall.
>

Since this whole API is new, I don't suppose you could introduce a
struct iovec64 or similar and just make the ABI be identical for
64-bit and 32-bit code?

--Andy



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