Re: [PATCH 5/9] aio: simplify cancellation

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Mar 21 2018 - 05:17:17 EST


On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 08:32:28AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> With the current aio code there is no need for the magic KIOCB_CANCELLED
> value, as a cancelation just kicks the driver to queue the completion
> ASAP, with all actual completion handling done in another thread. Given
> that both the completion path and cancelation take the context lock there
> is no need for magic cmpxchg loops either.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>