[PATCH 6/8] fs: add IOCB flags related to passing back dio completions

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

Async dio completions generally happen from hard/soft IRQ context, which
means that users like iomap may need to defer some of the completion
handling to a workqueue. This is less efficient than having the original
issuer handle it, like we do for sync IO, and it adds latency to the
completions.

Add IOCB_DIO_DEFER, which the issuer can set if it is able to safely
punt these completions to a safe context. If the dio handler is aware
of this flag, assign a callback handler in kiocb->dio_complete and
associated data io kiocb->private. The issuer will then call this handler
with that data from task context.

No functional changes in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
---
 include/linux/fs.h | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 6867512907d6..2c589418a078 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -338,6 +338,20 @@ enum rw_hint {
 #define IOCB_NOIO		(1 << 20)
 /* can use bio alloc cache */
 #define IOCB_ALLOC_CACHE	(1 << 21)
+/*
+ * IOCB_DIO_DEFER can be set by the iocb owner, to indicate that the
+ * iocb completion can be passed back to the owner for execution from a safe
+ * context rather than needing to be punted through a workqueue. If this
+ * flag is set, the completion handling may set iocb->dio_complete to a
+ * handler, which the issuer will then call from task context to complete
+ * the processing of the iocb. iocb->private should then also be set to
+ * the argument being passed to this handler. Note that while this provides
+ * a task context for the dio_complete() callback, it should only be used
+ * on the completion side for non-IO generating completions. It's fine to
+ * call blocking functions from this callback, but they should not wait for
+ * unrelated IO (like cache flushing, new IO generation, etc).
+ */
+#define IOCB_DIO_DEFER		(1 << 22)
 
 /* for use in trace events */
 #define TRACE_IOCB_STRINGS \
@@ -351,7 +365,8 @@ enum rw_hint {
 	{ IOCB_WRITE,		"WRITE" }, \
 	{ IOCB_WAITQ,		"WAITQ" }, \
 	{ IOCB_NOIO,		"NOIO" }, \
-	{ IOCB_ALLOC_CACHE,	"ALLOC_CACHE" }
+	{ IOCB_ALLOC_CACHE,	"ALLOC_CACHE" }, \
+	{ IOCB_DIO_DEFER,	"DIO_DEFER" }
 
 struct kiocb {
 	struct file		*ki_filp;
@@ -360,7 +375,22 @@ struct kiocb {
 	void			*private;
 	int			ki_flags;
 	u16			ki_ioprio; /* See linux/ioprio.h */
-	struct wait_page_queue	*ki_waitq; /* for async buffered IO */
+	union {
+		/*
+		 * Only used for async buffered reads, where it denotes the
+		 * page waitqueue associated with completing the read. Valid
+		 * IFF IOCB_WAITQ is set.
+		 */
+		struct wait_page_queue	*ki_waitq;
+		/*
+		 * Can be used for O_DIRECT IO, where the completion handling
+		 * is punted back to the issuer of the IO. May only be set
+		 * if IOCB_DIO_DEFER is set by the issuer, and the issuer must
+		 * then check for presence of this handler when ki_complete is
+		 * invoked.
+		 */
+		ssize_t (*dio_complete)(void *data);
+	};
 };
 
 static inline bool is_sync_kiocb(struct kiocb *kiocb)
-- 
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