Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] aio: store event at final iocb_put()

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:44:31 +0100

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 07:08:17AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> From: Al Viro <[email-masked]>
> 
> Instead of having aio_complete() set ->ki_res.{res,res2}, do that
> explicitly in its callers, drop the reference (as aio_complete()
> used to do) and delay the rest until the final iocb_put().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  fs/aio.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
> index 2249a7a1d6b3..b9c4c1894020 100644
> --- a/fs/aio.c
> +++ b/fs/aio.c
> @@ -1077,24 +1077,10 @@ static inline void iocb_destroy(struct aio_kiocb *iocb)
>  	kmem_cache_free(kiocb_cachep, iocb);
>  }
>  
> -static inline void iocb_put(struct aio_kiocb *iocb)
> -{
> -	if (refcount_dec_and_test(&iocb->ki_refcnt))
> -		iocb_destroy(iocb);
> -}

Maybe iocb_put should just have been added in the place you move
it to in patch 1?