From: Lennert Buytenhek <[email protected]>
To: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>, Al Viro <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], David Laight <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_GETDENTS
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:07:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 12:34:03PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > IORING_OP_GETDENTS may or may not update the specified directory's
> > file offset, and the file offset should not be relied upon having
> > any particular value during or after an IORING_OP_GETDENTS call.
>
> This doesn't give me the warm fuzzies. What I might suggest
> is either passing a parameter to iterate_dir() or breaking out an
> iterate_dir_nofpos() to make IORING_OP_GETDENTS more of a READV operation.
> ie the equivalent of this:
>
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
> } while (0)
>
>
> -int iterate_dir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
> +int iterate_dir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx, bool use_fpos)
> {
> struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
> bool shared = false;
> @@ -60,12 +60,14 @@ int iterate_dir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
>
> res = -ENOENT;
> if (!IS_DEADDIR(inode)) {
> - ctx->pos = file->f_pos;
> + if (use_fpos)
> + ctx->pos = file->f_pos;
> if (shared)
> res = file->f_op->iterate_shared(file, ctx);
> else
> res = file->f_op->iterate(file, ctx);
> - file->f_pos = ctx->pos;
> + if (use_fpos)
> + file->f_pos = ctx->pos;
> fsnotify_access(file);
> file_accessed(file);
> }
>
> That way there's no need to play with llseek or take a mutex on the
> f_pos of the directory.
I'll try this!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-19 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-18 12:26 [PATCH v3 0/2] io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_GETDENTS Lennert Buytenhek
2021-02-18 12:27 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] readdir: split the core of getdents64(2) out into vfs_getdents() Lennert Buytenhek
2021-02-18 12:27 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_GETDENTS Lennert Buytenhek
2021-02-19 12:05 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-19 12:10 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-02-19 18:06 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2021-02-19 12:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-19 18:07 ` Lennert Buytenhek [this message]
2021-02-19 18:59 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2021-02-20 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " David Laight
2021-02-20 18:29 ` Jens Axboe
2021-02-21 19:38 ` David Laight
2021-02-21 21:12 ` Jens Axboe
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