From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> This flag informs kernel to bail out if an AIO request will block for reasons such as file allocations, or a writeback triggered, or would block while allocating requests while performing direct I/O. IOCB_FLAG_NOWAIT is translated to IOCB_NOWAIT for iocb->ki_flags. Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/aio.c | 3 +++ include/linux/fs.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/aio_abi.h | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c index 873b4ca..5ae19ba 100644 --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -1586,6 +1586,9 @@ static int io_submit_one(struct kioctx *ctx, struct iocb __user *user_iocb, req->common.ki_flags |= IOCB_EVENTFD; } + if (iocb->aio_flags & IOCB_FLAG_NOWAIT) + req->common.ki_flags |= IOCB_NOWAIT; + ret = put_user(KIOCB_KEY, &user_iocb->aio_key); if (unlikely(ret)) { pr_debug("EFAULT: aio_key\n"); diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 2ba0743..ab2f556 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ struct writeback_control; #define IOCB_DSYNC (1 << 4) #define IOCB_SYNC (1 << 5) #define IOCB_WRITE (1 << 6) +#define IOCB_NOWAIT (1 << 7) struct kiocb { struct file *ki_filp; diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/aio_abi.h b/include/uapi/linux/aio_abi.h index bb2554f..82d1d94 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/aio_abi.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/aio_abi.h @@ -51,8 +51,11 @@ enum { * * IOCB_FLAG_RESFD - Set if the "aio_resfd" member of the "struct iocb" * is valid. + * IOCB_FLAG_NOWAIT - Set if the user wants the iocb to fail if it would block + * for operations such as disk allocation. */ #define IOCB_FLAG_RESFD (1 << 0) +#define IOCB_FLAG_NOWAIT (1 << 1) /* read() from /dev/aio returns these structures. */ struct io_event { -- 2.10.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html