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SubjectRe: Revert "aio: fix aio request leak when events are reaped by user space"
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 07:37:33PM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote:
> Some testing I've done today indicates that the original commit broke
> AIO with regard to users that overflow the maximum number of request
> per IO context (where -EAGAIN is returned).
>
> In fact, it did worse - the attached C program can easily overrun the
> ring buffer that is responsible for managing the completed requests,
> and caused notification about their completion never to be returned.

Argh, that would be a problem.

...
> This reverts commit b34e0e1319b31202eb142dcd9688cf7145a30bf6.

Reverting isn't okay, as that reintroduces another regression. We need
to come up with a fix for this issue that doesn't reintroduce the other
regression for events reaped in user space. Let me have a look and see
what I can come up with...

-ben
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