Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/36] aio: remove an outdated comment in aio_complete

From: "Darrick J. Wong" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:12:23 -0700

On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 01:27:09PM -0800, 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 move the BUG_ON for a sync
> iocb to the top of the function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <[email-masked]>

Looks ok,
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email-masked]>

--D

> ---
>  fs/aio.c | 11 ++---------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
> index 03d59593912d..41fc8ce6bc7f 100644
> --- a/fs/aio.c
> +++ b/fs/aio.c
> @@ -1088,6 +1088,8 @@ static void aio_complete(struct kiocb *kiocb, long res, long res2)
>  	unsigned tail, pos, head;
>  	unsigned long	flags;
>  
> +	BUG_ON(is_sync_kiocb(kiocb));
> +
>  	if (kiocb->ki_flags & IOCB_WRITE) {
>  		struct file *file = kiocb->ki_filp;
>  
> @@ -1100,15 +1102,6 @@ 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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