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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 16/22] aio: add aio support for iov_iter arguments

> Only kernel callers can provide an iov_iter so it doesn't make a lot of
> sense to expose the IOCB_CMD values for this as part of the user space
> ABI.
>
> But kernel callers should also be able to perform the usual aio
> operations which suggests using the the existing operation namespace and
> support code.

> --- a/include/linux/aio_abi.h
> +++ b/include/linux/aio_abi.h
> @@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ enum {
> IOCB_CMD_NOOP = 6,
> IOCB_CMD_PREADV = 7,
> IOCB_CMD_PWRITEV = 8,
> + IOCB_CMD_READ_ITER = 9,
> + IOCB_CMD_WRITE_ITER = 10,
> };

Bleh, yeah, I was never very satisfied with this. It still feels pretty
gross to be using _CMD_ definitions for these in-kernel iocbs. We'll
need to be verifying that these don't come from userspace iocbs forever
more.

I wonder if we can come up with something that feels less clumsy.

- z


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