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[liburing,1/2] man/io_uring_enter.2: Move poll update behavior to poll remove

Message ID 20240403164413.16398-2-krisman@suse.de (mailing list archive)
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Commit Message

Gabriel Krisman Bertazi April 3, 2024, 4:44 p.m. UTC
Since early days of OP_POLL_*, we had kernel commit
c5de00366e3e ("io_uring: move poll update into remove not add"), which
disabled poll update in the POLL_ADD path and moved it to POLL_REMOVE.
This updates the man page to reflect that change.

Closes: https://github.com/axboe/liburing/pull/1095
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>
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 man/io_uring_enter.2 | 48 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/man/io_uring_enter.2 b/man/io_uring_enter.2
index 7d04d47..ab73d54 100644
--- a/man/io_uring_enter.2
+++ b/man/io_uring_enter.2
@@ -302,6 +302,24 @@  the original request. If this flag isn't set on completion, then the poll
 request has been terminated and no further events will be generated. This mode
 is available since 5.13.
 
+This command works like
+an async
+.BR poll(2)
+and the completion event result is the returned mask of events.
+.TP
+.B IORING_OP_POLL_REMOVE
+Remove or update an existing poll request.  If found, the
+.I res
+field of the
+.I "struct io_uring_cqe"
+will contain 0.  If not found,
+.I res
+will contain
+.B -ENOENT,
+or
+.B -EALREADY
+if the poll request was in the process of completing already.
+
 If
 .B IORING_POLL_UPDATE_EVENTS
 is set in the SQE
@@ -311,8 +329,7 @@  events passed in with this request. The lookup is based on the
 .I user_data
 field of the original SQE submitted, and this values is passed in the
 .I addr
-field of the SQE. This mode is available since 5.13.
-
+field of the SQE.
 If
 .B IORING_POLL_UPDATE_USER_DATA
 is set in the SQE
@@ -321,32 +338,7 @@  field, then the request will update the
 .I user_data
 of an existing poll request based on the value passed in the
 .I off
-field. This mode is available since 5.13.
-
-This command works like
-an async
-.BR poll(2)
-and the completion event result is the returned mask of events. For the
-variants that update
-.I user_data
-or
-.I events
-, the completion result will be similar to
-.B IORING_OP_POLL_REMOVE.
-
-.TP
-.B IORING_OP_POLL_REMOVE
-Remove an existing poll request.  If found, the
-.I res
-field of the
-.I "struct io_uring_cqe"
-will contain 0.  If not found,
-.I res
-will contain
-.B -ENOENT,
-or
-.B -EALREADY
-if the poll request was in the process of completing already.
+field. Updating an existing poll is available since 5.13.
 
 .TP
 .B IORING_OP_EPOLL_CTL