Re: [PATCH 07/22] aio: add io_setup2() system call

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On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 12:22:21PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> This is just like io_setup(), except add a flags argument to let the
> caller control/define some of the io_context behavior.
> 
> Outside of the flags, we add two user pointers for future use.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Hmm, I don't think think I was fine with the current version..

> +/* sys_io_setup2:
> + *	Like sys_io_setup(), except that it takes a set of flags
> + *	(IOCTX_FLAG_*), and some pointers to user structures:
> + *
> + *	*user1 - reserved for future use
> + *
> + *	*user2 - reserved for future use.
> + */
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE5(io_setup2, u32, nr_events, u32, flags, void __user *, user1,
> +		void __user *, user2, aio_context_t __user *, ctxp)

Most importantly I'm really worried about these new user1 and user2
fields, which aren't really used for aio poll.  They are used for
the I/O ring, which while I think is a really great concept, I am also
worried about overlaying into the aio interface just creating confusion..



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