> I ended up working on this a bit today, and managed to cobble together
> something that somewhat works -- please see the patch below.
Just some quick observations:
> + ctx->ctx_file = anon_inode_getfile("[aio]", &aio_ctx_fops, ctx, O_RDWR);
> + if (IS_ERR(ctx->ctx_file)) {
> + ctx->ctx_file = NULL;
> + return -EAGAIN;
> + }
It's too bad that aio contexts will now be accounted against the filp
limits (get_empty_filp -> files_stat.max_files, etc).
> + for (i=0; i<nr_pages; i++) {
> + struct page *page;
> + void *ptr;
> + page = find_or_create_page(ctx->ctx_file->f_inode->i_mapping,
> + i, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!page) {
> + break;
> + }
> + ptr = kmap(page);
> + clear_page(ptr);
> + kunmap(page);
> + SetPageUptodate(page);
> + SetPageDirty(page);
> + unlock_page(page);
> + }
If they're GFP_KERNEL then you don't need to kmap them. But we probably
want to allocate with GFP_HIGHUSER and then use clear_user_highpage() to
zero them?
- z
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