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authorKent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>2013-05-13 22:42:52 +0200
committerBenjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>2013-07-30 17:53:12 +0200
commit57282d8fd744072d6d6f18fa6ebe3cc1149015bf (patch)
treefd01d088c8eb9e15ed4b1d486c9868b206b179c7 /include
parentaio: Kill unneeded kiocb members (diff)
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aio: Kill ki_users
The kiocb refcount is only needed for cancellation - to ensure a kiocb isn't freed while a ki_cancel callback is running. But if we restrict ki_cancel callbacks to not block (which they currently don't), we can simply drop the refcount. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com> Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/aio.h5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/aio.h b/include/linux/aio.h
index b570472355d1..c4f07ffa1cbb 100644
--- a/include/linux/aio.h
+++ b/include/linux/aio.h
@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@ struct kiocb;
typedef int (kiocb_cancel_fn)(struct kiocb *);
struct kiocb {
- atomic_t ki_users;
-
struct file *ki_filp;
struct kioctx *ki_ctx; /* NULL for sync ops */
kiocb_cancel_fn *ki_cancel;
@@ -65,7 +63,6 @@ static inline bool is_sync_kiocb(struct kiocb *kiocb)
static inline void init_sync_kiocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct file *filp)
{
*kiocb = (struct kiocb) {
- .ki_users = ATOMIC_INIT(1),
.ki_ctx = NULL,
.ki_filp = filp,
.ki_obj.tsk = current,
@@ -75,7 +72,6 @@ static inline void init_sync_kiocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct file *filp)
/* prototypes */
#ifdef CONFIG_AIO
extern ssize_t wait_on_sync_kiocb(struct kiocb *iocb);
-extern void aio_put_req(struct kiocb *iocb);
extern void aio_complete(struct kiocb *iocb, long res, long res2);
struct mm_struct;
extern void exit_aio(struct mm_struct *mm);
@@ -84,7 +80,6 @@ extern long do_io_submit(aio_context_t ctx_id, long nr,
void kiocb_set_cancel_fn(struct kiocb *req, kiocb_cancel_fn *cancel);
#else
static inline ssize_t wait_on_sync_kiocb(struct kiocb *iocb) { return 0; }
-static inline void aio_put_req(struct kiocb *iocb) { }
static inline void aio_complete(struct kiocb *iocb, long res, long res2) { }
struct mm_struct;
static inline void exit_aio(struct mm_struct *mm) { }