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SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm 1/5][AIO] - Rework compat_sys_io_submit
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On Nov 29, 2006, at 2:32 AM, Sébastien Dugué wrote:

> compat_sys_io_submit() cleanup
>
>
> Cleanup compat_sys_io_submit by duplicating some of the native
> syscall
> logic in the compat layer and directly calling io_submit_one() instead
> of fooling the syscall into thinking it is called from a native 64-bit
> caller.
>
> This is needed for the completion notification patch to avoid having
> to rewrite each iocb on the caller stack for sys_io_submit() to
> find the
> sigevents.

You could explicitly mention that this eliminates:

- the overhead of copying nr pointers on the userspace caller's stack

- the arbitrary PAGE_SIZE/(sizeof(void *)) limit on the number of
iocbs that can be submitted

Those alone make this worth merging.

> + if (unlikely(!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, iocb, (nr * sizeof(u32)))))
> + return -EFAULT;

I'm glad you got that right :) I no doubt would have initially
hoisted these little checks into a shared helper function and missed
that detail of getting the size of the access_ok() right in the
compat case.

> + put_ioctx(ctx);
> +
> + return i? i: ret;

sys_io_getevents() reads:

put_ioctx(ctx);
return i ? i : ret;

So while this compat_sys_io_submit() logic seems fine and I would be
comfortable with it landing as-is, I'd also appreciate it if we
didn't introduce differences between the two functions when it seems
just as easy to make them the same. (That chunk is just one
example. There's whitespace, missing unlikely()s, etc).

- z-
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