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Date:   Mon, 11 Mar 2019 21:13:28 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] aio: store event at final iocb_put()
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 08:44:31PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 07:08:17AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> > 
> > 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 <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> > ---
> >  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?

Might as well...