Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 2 authors, 2018-04-26

Re: [PATCH 2/7] aio: remove an outdated BUG_ON and comment in aio_complete

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From: Darrick J. Wong <hidden>
Date: 2018-04-24 21:28:05
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 05:01:03PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
These days we don't treat sync iocbs special in the aio completion code as
they never use it.  Remove the old comment and BUG_ON given that the
current definition of is_sync_kiocb makes it impossible to hit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Looks ok,
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <redacted>

--D
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 fs/aio.c | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index add46b06be86..7c1855afd723 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -1107,15 +1107,6 @@ static void aio_complete(struct kiocb *kiocb, long res, long res2)
 		file_end_write(file);
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Special case handling for sync iocbs:
-	 *  - events go directly into the iocb for fast handling
-	 *  - the sync task with the iocb in its stack holds the single iocb
-	 *    ref, no other paths have a way to get another ref
-	 *  - the sync task helpfully left a reference to itself in the iocb
-	 */
-	BUG_ON(is_sync_kiocb(kiocb));
-
 	if (iocb->ki_list.next) {
 		unsigned long flags;
 
-- 
2.17.0
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