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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Small bug fix for aio
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 06:54:51PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> Here is a trivial patch fixed a bug in ioctx_alloc(). If
> aio_setup_ring() failed, ioctx_alloc() should pass the return error from
> aio_setup_ring() back to sys_io_setup().

This particular case was intentional: -ENOMEM really is the right return
code when the ring cannot be allocated. Mixing it up with the potential
return codes from do_mmap or other functions might result in a very
nonsensical return. Perhaps someone can provide an arguement in favour
of propagating the value, but I think it really can only mean "you asked
the kernel to allocate too much memory or did something stupidly buggy with
threads". Cheers,

-ben
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