Re: [PATCH 1/5] aio: Export symbols and struct kiocb_batch for in kernel aio usage
Hi James, On 07/13/2012 01:50 AM, James Bottomley wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 23:35 +0800, Asias He wrote: This is useful for people who want to use aio in kernel, e.g. vhost-blk. Signed-off-by: Asias He --- fs/aio.c| 37 ++--- include/linux/aio.h | 21 + 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) Um, I think you don't quite understand how aio in the kernel would work; it's not as simple as just exporting the interfaces. There's already a (very long) patch set from oracle to do this so loop can use aio: http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel=133312234313122 Oh, I did not see this patch set. Thanks for pointing it out! This bit hasn't merged, right? I'd love to use the aio_kernel_() interface if it is merged. It will simply vhost-blk. Due to lack of better kernel aio interface, we are currently doing io_setup, io_submit, etc. in vhost-blk on our own. -- Asias -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PATCH 1/5] aio: Export symbols and struct kiocb_batch for in kernel aio usage
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 23:35 +0800, Asias He wrote: > This is useful for people who want to use aio in kernel, e.g. vhost-blk. > > Signed-off-by: Asias He > --- > fs/aio.c| 37 ++--- > include/linux/aio.h | 21 + > 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) Um, I think you don't quite understand how aio in the kernel would work; it's not as simple as just exporting the interfaces. There's already a (very long) patch set from oracle to do this so loop can use aio: http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel=133312234313122 James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[PATCH 1/5] aio: Export symbols and struct kiocb_batch for in kernel aio usage
This is useful for people who want to use aio in kernel, e.g. vhost-blk.
Signed-off-by: Asias He
---
fs/aio.c| 37 ++---
include/linux/aio.h | 21 +
2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 55c4c76..93dfbdd 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -224,22 +224,24 @@ static void __put_ioctx(struct kioctx *ctx)
call_rcu(>rcu_head, ctx_rcu_free);
}
-static inline int try_get_ioctx(struct kioctx *kioctx)
+inline int try_get_ioctx(struct kioctx *kioctx)
{
return atomic_inc_not_zero(>users);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_get_ioctx);
-static inline void put_ioctx(struct kioctx *kioctx)
+inline void put_ioctx(struct kioctx *kioctx)
{
BUG_ON(atomic_read(>users) <= 0);
if (unlikely(atomic_dec_and_test(>users)))
__put_ioctx(kioctx);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_ioctx);
/* ioctx_alloc
* Allocates and initializes an ioctx. Returns an ERR_PTR if it failed.
*/
-static struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsigned nr_events)
+struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsigned nr_events)
{
struct mm_struct *mm;
struct kioctx *ctx;
@@ -303,6 +305,7 @@ out_freectx:
dprintk("aio: error allocating ioctx %d\n", err);
return ERR_PTR(err);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ioctx_alloc);
/* kill_ctx
* Cancels all outstanding aio requests on an aio context. Used
@@ -436,23 +439,14 @@ static struct kiocb *__aio_get_req(struct kioctx *ctx)
return req;
}
-/*
- * struct kiocb's are allocated in batches to reduce the number of
- * times the ctx lock is acquired and released.
- */
-#define KIOCB_BATCH_SIZE 32L
-struct kiocb_batch {
- struct list_head head;
- long count; /* number of requests left to allocate */
-};
-
-static void kiocb_batch_init(struct kiocb_batch *batch, long total)
+void kiocb_batch_init(struct kiocb_batch *batch, long total)
{
INIT_LIST_HEAD(>head);
batch->count = total;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kiocb_batch_init);
-static void kiocb_batch_free(struct kioctx *ctx, struct kiocb_batch *batch)
+void kiocb_batch_free(struct kioctx *ctx, struct kiocb_batch *batch)
{
struct kiocb *req, *n;
@@ -470,6 +464,7 @@ static void kiocb_batch_free(struct kioctx *ctx, struct
kiocb_batch *batch)
wake_up_all(>wait);
spin_unlock_irq(>ctx_lock);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kiocb_batch_free);
/*
* Allocate a batch of kiocbs. This avoids taking and dropping the
@@ -540,7 +535,7 @@ out:
return allocated;
}
-static inline struct kiocb *aio_get_req(struct kioctx *ctx,
+inline struct kiocb *aio_get_req(struct kioctx *ctx,
struct kiocb_batch *batch)
{
struct kiocb *req;
@@ -552,6 +547,7 @@ static inline struct kiocb *aio_get_req(struct kioctx *ctx,
list_del(>ki_batch);
return req;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(aio_get_req);
static inline void really_put_req(struct kioctx *ctx, struct kiocb *req)
{
@@ -721,7 +717,7 @@ static inline int __queue_kicked_iocb(struct kiocb *iocb)
* simplifies the coding of individual aio operations as
* it avoids various potential races.
*/
-static ssize_t aio_run_iocb(struct kiocb *iocb)
+ssize_t aio_run_iocb(struct kiocb *iocb)
{
struct kioctx *ctx = iocb->ki_ctx;
ssize_t (*retry)(struct kiocb *);
@@ -815,6 +811,7 @@ out:
}
return ret;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(aio_run_iocb);
/*
* __aio_run_iocbs:
@@ -1136,7 +1133,7 @@ static inline void clear_timeout(struct aio_timeout *to)
del_singleshot_timer_sync(>timer);
}
-static int read_events(struct kioctx *ctx,
+int read_events(struct kioctx *ctx,
long min_nr, long nr,
struct io_event __user *event,
struct timespec __user *timeout)
@@ -1252,6 +1249,7 @@ out:
destroy_timer_on_stack();
return i ? i : ret;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(read_events);
/* Take an ioctx and remove it from the list of ioctx's. Protects
* against races with itself via ->dead.
@@ -1492,7 +1490,7 @@ static ssize_t aio_setup_single_vector(int type, struct
file * file, struct kioc
* Performs the initial checks and aio retry method
* setup for the kiocb at the time of io submission.
*/
-static ssize_t aio_setup_iocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, bool compat)
+ssize_t aio_setup_iocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, bool compat)
{
struct file *file = kiocb->ki_filp;
ssize_t ret = 0;
@@ -1570,6 +1568,7 @@ static ssize_t aio_setup_iocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, bool
compat)
return 0;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(aio_setup_iocb);
static int io_submit_one(struct kioctx *ctx, struct iocb __user *user_iocb,
struct iocb *iocb, struct kiocb_batch *batch,
diff --git a/include/linux/aio.h b/include/linux/aio.h
index b1a520e..4731da5 100644
--- a/include/linux/aio.h
+++ b/include/linux/aio.h
@@ -126,6 +126,16 @@ struct kiocb {
struct
Re: [PATCH 1/5] aio: Export symbols and struct kiocb_batch for in kernel aio usage
Hi James, On 07/13/2012 01:50 AM, James Bottomley wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 23:35 +0800, Asias He wrote: This is useful for people who want to use aio in kernel, e.g. vhost-blk. Signed-off-by: Asias He as...@redhat.com --- fs/aio.c| 37 ++--- include/linux/aio.h | 21 + 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) Um, I think you don't quite understand how aio in the kernel would work; it's not as simple as just exporting the interfaces. There's already a (very long) patch set from oracle to do this so loop can use aio: http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevelm=133312234313122 Oh, I did not see this patch set. Thanks for pointing it out! This bit hasn't merged, right? I'd love to use the aio_kernel_() interface if it is merged. It will simply vhost-blk. Due to lack of better kernel aio interface, we are currently doing io_setup, io_submit, etc. in vhost-blk on our own. -- Asias -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[PATCH 1/5] aio: Export symbols and struct kiocb_batch for in kernel aio usage
This is useful for people who want to use aio in kernel, e.g. vhost-blk.
Signed-off-by: Asias He as...@redhat.com
---
fs/aio.c| 37 ++---
include/linux/aio.h | 21 +
2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 55c4c76..93dfbdd 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -224,22 +224,24 @@ static void __put_ioctx(struct kioctx *ctx)
call_rcu(ctx-rcu_head, ctx_rcu_free);
}
-static inline int try_get_ioctx(struct kioctx *kioctx)
+inline int try_get_ioctx(struct kioctx *kioctx)
{
return atomic_inc_not_zero(kioctx-users);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_get_ioctx);
-static inline void put_ioctx(struct kioctx *kioctx)
+inline void put_ioctx(struct kioctx *kioctx)
{
BUG_ON(atomic_read(kioctx-users) = 0);
if (unlikely(atomic_dec_and_test(kioctx-users)))
__put_ioctx(kioctx);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_ioctx);
/* ioctx_alloc
* Allocates and initializes an ioctx. Returns an ERR_PTR if it failed.
*/
-static struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsigned nr_events)
+struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsigned nr_events)
{
struct mm_struct *mm;
struct kioctx *ctx;
@@ -303,6 +305,7 @@ out_freectx:
dprintk(aio: error allocating ioctx %d\n, err);
return ERR_PTR(err);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ioctx_alloc);
/* kill_ctx
* Cancels all outstanding aio requests on an aio context. Used
@@ -436,23 +439,14 @@ static struct kiocb *__aio_get_req(struct kioctx *ctx)
return req;
}
-/*
- * struct kiocb's are allocated in batches to reduce the number of
- * times the ctx lock is acquired and released.
- */
-#define KIOCB_BATCH_SIZE 32L
-struct kiocb_batch {
- struct list_head head;
- long count; /* number of requests left to allocate */
-};
-
-static void kiocb_batch_init(struct kiocb_batch *batch, long total)
+void kiocb_batch_init(struct kiocb_batch *batch, long total)
{
INIT_LIST_HEAD(batch-head);
batch-count = total;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kiocb_batch_init);
-static void kiocb_batch_free(struct kioctx *ctx, struct kiocb_batch *batch)
+void kiocb_batch_free(struct kioctx *ctx, struct kiocb_batch *batch)
{
struct kiocb *req, *n;
@@ -470,6 +464,7 @@ static void kiocb_batch_free(struct kioctx *ctx, struct
kiocb_batch *batch)
wake_up_all(ctx-wait);
spin_unlock_irq(ctx-ctx_lock);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kiocb_batch_free);
/*
* Allocate a batch of kiocbs. This avoids taking and dropping the
@@ -540,7 +535,7 @@ out:
return allocated;
}
-static inline struct kiocb *aio_get_req(struct kioctx *ctx,
+inline struct kiocb *aio_get_req(struct kioctx *ctx,
struct kiocb_batch *batch)
{
struct kiocb *req;
@@ -552,6 +547,7 @@ static inline struct kiocb *aio_get_req(struct kioctx *ctx,
list_del(req-ki_batch);
return req;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(aio_get_req);
static inline void really_put_req(struct kioctx *ctx, struct kiocb *req)
{
@@ -721,7 +717,7 @@ static inline int __queue_kicked_iocb(struct kiocb *iocb)
* simplifies the coding of individual aio operations as
* it avoids various potential races.
*/
-static ssize_t aio_run_iocb(struct kiocb *iocb)
+ssize_t aio_run_iocb(struct kiocb *iocb)
{
struct kioctx *ctx = iocb-ki_ctx;
ssize_t (*retry)(struct kiocb *);
@@ -815,6 +811,7 @@ out:
}
return ret;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(aio_run_iocb);
/*
* __aio_run_iocbs:
@@ -1136,7 +1133,7 @@ static inline void clear_timeout(struct aio_timeout *to)
del_singleshot_timer_sync(to-timer);
}
-static int read_events(struct kioctx *ctx,
+int read_events(struct kioctx *ctx,
long min_nr, long nr,
struct io_event __user *event,
struct timespec __user *timeout)
@@ -1252,6 +1249,7 @@ out:
destroy_timer_on_stack(to.timer);
return i ? i : ret;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(read_events);
/* Take an ioctx and remove it from the list of ioctx's. Protects
* against races with itself via -dead.
@@ -1492,7 +1490,7 @@ static ssize_t aio_setup_single_vector(int type, struct
file * file, struct kioc
* Performs the initial checks and aio retry method
* setup for the kiocb at the time of io submission.
*/
-static ssize_t aio_setup_iocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, bool compat)
+ssize_t aio_setup_iocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, bool compat)
{
struct file *file = kiocb-ki_filp;
ssize_t ret = 0;
@@ -1570,6 +1568,7 @@ static ssize_t aio_setup_iocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, bool
compat)
return 0;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(aio_setup_iocb);
static int io_submit_one(struct kioctx *ctx, struct iocb __user *user_iocb,
struct iocb *iocb, struct kiocb_batch *batch,
diff --git a/include/linux/aio.h b/include/linux/aio.h
index b1a520e..4731da5 100644
--- a/include/linux/aio.h
+++
Re: [PATCH 1/5] aio: Export symbols and struct kiocb_batch for in kernel aio usage
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 23:35 +0800, Asias He wrote: This is useful for people who want to use aio in kernel, e.g. vhost-blk. Signed-off-by: Asias He as...@redhat.com --- fs/aio.c| 37 ++--- include/linux/aio.h | 21 + 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) Um, I think you don't quite understand how aio in the kernel would work; it's not as simple as just exporting the interfaces. There's already a (very long) patch set from oracle to do this so loop can use aio: http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevelm=133312234313122 James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
