signal/timer/event: KAIO eventfd support example

This is an example about how to add eventfd support to the current KAIO code,
in order to enable KAIO to post readiness events to a pollable fd (hence
compatible with POSIX select/poll).  The KAIO code simply signals the eventfd
fd when events are ready, and this triggers a POLLIN in the fd.  This patch
uses a reserved for future use member of the struct iocb to pass an eventfd
file descriptor, that KAIO will use to post events every time a request
completes.  At that point, an aio_getevents() will return the completed result
to a struct io_event.  I made a quick test program to verify the patch, and it
runs fine here:

http://www.xmailserver.org/eventfd-aio-test.c

The test program uses poll(2), but it'd, of course, work with select and epoll
too.

This can allow to schedule both block I/O and other poll-able devices
requests, and wait for results using select/poll/epoll.  In a typical
scenario, an application would submit KAIO request using aio_submit(), and
will also use epoll_ctl() on the whole other class of devices (that with the
addition of signals, timers and user events, now it's pretty much complete),
and then would:

	epoll_wait(...);
	for_each_event {
		if (curr_event_is_kaiofd) {
			aio_getevents();
			dispatch_aio_events();
		} else {
			dispatch_epoll_event();
		}
	}

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Davide Libenzi 2007-05-10 22:23:21 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent fdb902b122
commit 9c3060bedd
3 changed files with 49 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/eventfd.h>
#include <asm/kmap_types.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@ -417,6 +418,7 @@ static struct kiocb fastcall *__aio_get_req(struct kioctx *ctx)
req->private = NULL;
req->ki_iovec = NULL;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&req->ki_run_list);
req->ki_eventfd = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
/* Check if the completion queue has enough free space to
* accept an event from this io.
@ -458,6 +460,8 @@ static inline void really_put_req(struct kioctx *ctx, struct kiocb *req)
{
assert_spin_locked(&ctx->ctx_lock);
if (!IS_ERR(req->ki_eventfd))
fput(req->ki_eventfd);
if (req->ki_dtor)
req->ki_dtor(req);
if (req->ki_iovec != &req->ki_inline_vec)
@ -942,6 +946,14 @@ int fastcall aio_complete(struct kiocb *iocb, long res, long res2)
return 1;
}
/*
* Check if the user asked us to deliver the result through an
* eventfd. The eventfd_signal() function is safe to be called
* from IRQ context.
*/
if (!IS_ERR(iocb->ki_eventfd))
eventfd_signal(iocb->ki_eventfd, 1);
info = &ctx->ring_info;
/* add a completion event to the ring buffer.
@ -1526,8 +1538,7 @@ int fastcall io_submit_one(struct kioctx *ctx, struct iocb __user *user_iocb,
ssize_t ret;
/* enforce forwards compatibility on users */
if (unlikely(iocb->aio_reserved1 || iocb->aio_reserved2 ||
iocb->aio_reserved3)) {
if (unlikely(iocb->aio_reserved1 || iocb->aio_reserved2)) {
pr_debug("EINVAL: io_submit: reserve field set\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
@ -1551,6 +1562,19 @@ int fastcall io_submit_one(struct kioctx *ctx, struct iocb __user *user_iocb,
fput(file);
return -EAGAIN;
}
if (iocb->aio_flags & IOCB_FLAG_RESFD) {
/*
* If the IOCB_FLAG_RESFD flag of aio_flags is set, get an
* instance of the file* now. The file descriptor must be
* an eventfd() fd, and will be signaled for each completed
* event using the eventfd_signal() function.
*/
req->ki_eventfd = eventfd_fget((int) iocb->aio_resfd);
if (unlikely(IS_ERR(req->ki_eventfd))) {
ret = PTR_ERR(req->ki_eventfd);
goto out_put_req;
}
}
req->ki_filp = file;
ret = put_user(req->ki_key, &user_iocb->aio_key);

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@ -119,6 +119,12 @@ struct kiocb {
struct list_head ki_list; /* the aio core uses this
* for cancellation */
/*
* If the aio_resfd field of the userspace iocb is not zero,
* this is the underlying file* to deliver event to.
*/
struct file *ki_eventfd;
};
#define is_sync_kiocb(iocb) ((iocb)->ki_key == KIOCB_SYNC_KEY)

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@ -45,6 +45,14 @@ enum {
IOCB_CMD_PWRITEV = 8,
};
/*
* Valid flags for the "aio_flags" member of the "struct iocb".
*
* IOCB_FLAG_RESFD - Set if the "aio_resfd" member of the "struct iocb"
* is valid.
*/
#define IOCB_FLAG_RESFD (1 << 0)
/* read() from /dev/aio returns these structures. */
struct io_event {
__u64 data; /* the data field from the iocb */
@ -84,7 +92,15 @@ struct iocb {
/* extra parameters */
__u64 aio_reserved2; /* TODO: use this for a (struct sigevent *) */
__u64 aio_reserved3;
/* flags for the "struct iocb" */
__u32 aio_flags;
/*
* if the IOCB_FLAG_RESFD flag of "aio_flags" is set, this is an
* eventfd to signal AIO readiness to
*/
__u32 aio_resfd;
}; /* 64 bytes */
#undef IFBIG