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[2/6] aio: remove an outdated comment in aio_complete

Message ID 20180328072639.16885-3-hch@lst.de (mailing list archive)
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Christoph Hellwig March 28, 2018, 7:26 a.m. UTC
These days we don't treat sync iocbs special in the aio completion code as
they never use it.  Remove the old comment and BUG_ON given that the
current definition of is_sync_kiocb makes it impossible to hit.
iocb to the top of the function.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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 fs/aio.c | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

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Darrick J. Wong March 28, 2018, 4:05 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:26:35AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> These days we don't treat sync iocbs special in the aio completion code as
> they never use it.  Remove the old comment and BUG_ON given that the
> current definition of is_sync_kiocb makes it impossible to hit.
> iocb to the top of the function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Yeah that looks fairly impossible now...
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

--D

> ---
>  fs/aio.c | 9 ---------
>  1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
> index 03d59593912d..f536b0f249d4 100644
> --- a/fs/aio.c
> +++ b/fs/aio.c
> @@ -1100,15 +1100,6 @@ static void aio_complete(struct kiocb *kiocb, long res, long res2)
>  		file_end_write(file);
>  	}
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Special case handling for sync iocbs:
> -	 *  - events go directly into the iocb for fast handling
> -	 *  - the sync task with the iocb in its stack holds the single iocb
> -	 *    ref, no other paths have a way to get another ref
> -	 *  - the sync task helpfully left a reference to itself in the iocb
> -	 */
> -	BUG_ON(is_sync_kiocb(kiocb));
> -
>  	if (iocb->ki_list.next) {
>  		unsigned long flags;
>  
> -- 
> 2.14.2
> 
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Matthew Wilcox March 28, 2018, 5:05 p.m. UTC | #2
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:26:35AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> These days we don't treat sync iocbs special in the aio completion code as
> they never use it.  Remove the old comment and BUG_ON given that the
> current definition of is_sync_kiocb makes it impossible to hit.
> iocb to the top of the function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Looks like you have a stray line of text in the changelog here ...
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diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 03d59593912d..f536b0f249d4 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -1100,15 +1100,6 @@  static void aio_complete(struct kiocb *kiocb, long res, long res2)
 		file_end_write(file);
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Special case handling for sync iocbs:
-	 *  - events go directly into the iocb for fast handling
-	 *  - the sync task with the iocb in its stack holds the single iocb
-	 *    ref, no other paths have a way to get another ref
-	 *  - the sync task helpfully left a reference to itself in the iocb
-	 */
-	BUG_ON(is_sync_kiocb(kiocb));
-
 	if (iocb->ki_list.next) {
 		unsigned long flags;