Re: [PATCH v6 01/34] vfs: Unconditionally set IOCB_WRITE in call_write_iter()

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Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I suspect the best is to:
> 
>  - rename init_sync_kiocb to init_kiocb
>  - pass a new argument for the destination

Do you mean the direction rather than the destination?

>    to it.  I'm not entirely
>    sure if flags is a good thing, or an explicit READ/WRITE might be
>    better because it's harder to get wrong, even if a the compiler
>    might generate worth code for it.
>  - also use it in the async callers (io_uring, aio, overlayfs, loop,
>    nvmet, target, cachefs, file backed swap)

David




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