Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:22:15 -0800 | From | Zach Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm 3/4][AIO] - AIO completion signal notification |
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> OK, looking at this, there's something bothering me: io_submit_one() needs > a pointer to the user iocb in order to push back the iocb->ki_key to userspace, > as well as storing the user_iocb pointer into iocb->ki_obj.
Why can't it continue to do what it does today? Both of those uses of the user_iocb pointer involve fixed-width fields and don't need compat help.
> So I think that some of the logic in io_submit_one() must be moved up to > sys_io_submit(), including the aio_get_req() call.
I don't see why that would be needed.
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