From 41003a7bcfed1255032e1e7c7b487e505b22e298 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zach Brown Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 16:18:25 -0700 Subject: aio: remove retry-based AIO This removes the retry-based AIO infrastructure now that nothing in tree is using it. We want to remove retry-based AIO because it is fundemantally unsafe. It retries IO submission from a kernel thread that has only assumed the mm of the submitting task. All other task_struct references in the IO submission path will see the kernel thread, not the submitting task. This design flaw means that nothing of any meaningful complexity can use retry-based AIO. This removes all the code and data associated with the retry machinery. The most significant benefit of this is the removal of the locking around the unused run list in the submission path. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Signed-off-by: Zach Brown Cc: Zach Brown Cc: Felipe Balbi Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Asai Thambi S P Cc: Selvan Mani Cc: Sam Bradshaw Acked-by: Jeff Moyer Cc: Al Viro Cc: Benjamin LaHaise Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/errno.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/errno.h') diff --git a/include/linux/errno.h b/include/linux/errno.h index f6bf082d4d4f..89627b9187f9 100644 --- a/include/linux/errno.h +++ b/include/linux/errno.h @@ -28,6 +28,5 @@ #define EBADTYPE 527 /* Type not supported by server */ #define EJUKEBOX 528 /* Request initiated, but will not complete before timeout */ #define EIOCBQUEUED 529 /* iocb queued, will get completion event */ -#define EIOCBRETRY 530 /* iocb queued, will trigger a retry */ #endif -- cgit v1.2.2