Hi Andrew, here is the latest rework of the aio notification and listio support patches with comments from Oleg Nesterov and you addressed.
Sébastien. This set now consists in 7 patches: 1. rework-compat-sys-io-submit: cleanup the sys_io_submit() compat layer, making it more efficient and laying out the base for the following patches 2. aio-header-fix-includes: fixes the double inclusion of uio.h in aio.h 3. aio-fix-access_ok-check: fixes the access_ok() checks 4. make-good_sigevent-non-static: move good_sigevent into signal.c, rename it to something more meaningfull and make it non-static 5. make-__sigqueue_alloc-free-non-static: make __sigqueue_alloc() and __sigqueue_free() non static 6. aio-notify-sig: the AIO completion signal notification 7. add-listio-syscall-support: adds listio support via a new syscall Description are in the individual patches. Changes from v5: based on comments from Oleg Nesterov and Andrew Morton - Fix for signo range not checked in the SIGEV_THREAD_ID case in good_sigevent() - renamed good_sigevent() to sigevent_find_task() - Fixed the access_ok checks in sys_io_submit() and compat_sys_io_submit() - Made __sigqueue_alloc() and __sigqueue_free() non static - Reworked the aio code to directly use __sigqueue_alloc() and __sigqueue_free() and avoid messing with SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC - Removed the unneeded PF_EXITING check in aio_setup_sigevent() - Added a comment in aio_setup_sigevent() for why there is no task ref leak - Changed read_lock(&tasklist_lock) to rcu_read_lock() in aio_setup_sigevent() - Fixed an ioctx reference leak in compat_sys_lio_submit() - Renamed lio_check() as lio_notify() - Added comments to lio_notify() and lio_create() - Replaced sigqueue_free() by __sigqueue_free() in lio_notify() Changes from v4: No comments received for v4, so it must be perfect ;-) replaced the IOCB_CMD_GROUP listio implementation with Bharata's syscall approach which I find much cleaner. Changes from v3: - added justification for the compat_sys_io_submit() cleanup - Zach Brown - more cleanups in compat_sys_io_submit() to put it in line with sys_io_submit() - Zach Brown - Changed "Export good_sigevent()" patch name to "Make good_sigevent() non-static" to better describe what it does. - Christoph Hellwig - Reworked good_sigevent() to make it more readable. - Christoph Hellwig - Simplified the use of the SIGEV_* constants in signal notification - Christoph Hellwig - Take a reference on the target task both for the SIGEV_THREAD_ID and SIGEV_SIGNAL cases. Changes from v2: - rebased to 2.6.19-rc6-mm2 - reworked the sys_io_submit() compat layer as suggested by Zach Brown - fixed saving of a pointer to a task struct in aio-notify-sig as pointed out by Andrew Morton Changes from v1: - cleanups suggested by Christoph Hellwig, Badari Pulavarty and Zach Brown - added lisio patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/