These days we don't treat sync iocbs special in the aio completion code as
they never use it. Remove the old comment, and move the BUG_ON for a sync
iocb to the top of the function.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/aio.c | 11 ++---------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 03d59593912d..41fc8ce6bc7f 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -1088,6 +1088,8 @@ static void aio_complete(struct kiocb *kiocb, long res, long res2)
unsigned tail, pos, head;
unsigned long flags;
+ BUG_ON(is_sync_kiocb(kiocb));
+
if (kiocb->ki_flags & IOCB_WRITE) {
struct file *file = kiocb->ki_filp;
@@ -1100,15 +1102,6 @@ static void aio_complete(struct kiocb *kiocb, long res, long res2)
file_end_write(file);
}
- /*
- * Special case handling for sync iocbs:
- * - events go directly into the iocb for fast handling
- * - the sync task with the iocb in its stack holds the single iocb
- * ref, no other paths have a way to get another ref
- * - the sync task helpfully left a reference to itself in the iocb
- */
- BUG_ON(is_sync_kiocb(kiocb));
-
if (iocb->ki_list.next) {
unsigned long flags;
--
2.14.2
