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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 07/13] fs/userfaultfd: support read_iter to use io_uring
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> On Nov 30, 2020, at 10:20 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
>
> On 11/28/20 5:45 PM, Nadav Amit wrote:
>> From: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
>>
>> iouring with userfaultfd cannot currently be used fixed buffers since
>> userfaultfd does not provide read_iter(). This is required to allow
>> asynchronous (queued) reads from userfaultfd.
>>
>> To support async-reads of userfaultfd provide read_iter() instead of
>> read().
>>
>> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
>> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
>> Cc: io-uring@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
>> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
>> ---
>> fs/userfaultfd.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
>> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
>> index b6a04e526025..6333b4632742 100644
>> --- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
>> +++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
>> @@ -1195,9 +1195,9 @@ static ssize_t userfaultfd_ctx_read(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, int no_wait,
>> return ret;
>> }
>>
>> -static ssize_t userfaultfd_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
>> - size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
>> +static ssize_t userfaultfd_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to)
>> {
>> + struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
>> struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx = file->private_data;
>> ssize_t _ret, ret = 0;
>> struct uffd_msg msg;
>> @@ -1207,16 +1207,18 @@ static ssize_t userfaultfd_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
>> return -EINVAL;
>>
>> for (;;) {
>> - if (count < sizeof(msg))
>> + if (iov_iter_count(to) < sizeof(msg))
>> return ret ? ret : -EINVAL;
>> _ret = userfaultfd_ctx_read(ctx, no_wait, &msg);
>
> 'no_wait' should be changed to factor in iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT as well,
> not just f_flags & O_NONBLOCK.
>
> I didn't check your write_iter, but if appropriate, that should do that
> too.

Thanks, I completely missed this point and will fix it in v1 (if I get
a positive feedback on the rest from the userfaultfd people).

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