Re: [PATCH 05/18] Add io_uring IO interface

On 1/28/19 7:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

[please make sure linux-api and linux-man are CCed on new syscalls
so that we get API experts to review them]

quoted

io_uring_enter(fd, to_submit, min_complete, flags)
	Initiates IO against the rings mapped to this fd, or waits for
	them to complete, or both. The behavior is controlled by the
	parameters passed in. If 'to_submit' is non-zero, then we'll
	try and submit new IO. If IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS is set, the
	kernel will wait for 'min_complete' events, if they aren't
	already available. It's valid to set IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS
	and 'min_complete' == 0 at the same time, this allows the
	kernel to return already completed events without waiting
	for them. This is useful only for polling, as for IRQ
	driven IO, the application can just check the CQ ring
	without entering the kernel.

Especially with poll support now in the series, don't we need a ѕigmask
argument similar to pselect/ppoll/io_pgetevents now to deal with signal
blocking during waiting for events?

Is there any way to avoid passing in the sigset_t size? If it's just a
32-bit/64-bit thing, surely the in_compat_syscall() could cover it? Or
are there other cases that need to be catered to?

-- 
Jens Axboe