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SubjectRe: [patch 13/13] signalfd/timerfd/asyncfd v5 - KAIO asyncfd support (example/maybe-broken) ...
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 04:24:54PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Can you point me to a kernel path that ends up calling aio_complete() in a
> do-not-sleep mode?

If you remove that invariant, then it is very difficult for device drivers
and other code to make use of aio_complete().

> The offender I see is drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c that calls it with a
> spinlock held.

Which was from irq context last time I checked.

> The aio_run_iocb function seem to release/reacquire the lock before
> calling aio_complete().

That implies nothing -- aio_complete() has to acquire ctx_lock and cannot
be called holding the lock. Sure, it could probably be split into
__aio_complete() and have aio_complete() wrap it acquiring the lock.

-ben
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