fs: Introduce RWF_NOWAIT and FMODE_AIO_NOWAIT

RWF_NOWAIT informs kernel to bail out if an AIO request will block
for reasons such as file allocations, or a writeback triggered,
or would block while allocating requests while performing
direct I/O.

RWF_NOWAIT is translated to IOCB_NOWAIT for iocb->ki_flags.

FMODE_AIO_NOWAIT is a flag which identifies the file opened is capable
of returning -EAGAIN if the AIO call will block. This must be set by
supporting filesystems in the ->open() call.

Filesystems xfs, btrfs and ext4 would be supported in the following patches.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 020fa0045e3c..34027b67e2f4 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -1592,6 +1592,12 @@ static int io_submit_one(struct kioctx *ctx, struct iocb __user *user_iocb,
 		goto out_put_req;
 	}
 
+	if ((req->common.ki_flags & IOCB_NOWAIT) &&
+			!(req->common.ki_flags & IOCB_DIRECT)) {
+		ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		goto out_put_req;
+	}
+
 	ret = put_user(KIOCB_KEY, &user_iocb->aio_key);
 	if (unlikely(ret)) {
 		pr_debug("EFAULT: aio_key\n");