Re: [PATCH RFC v2 1/3] io_uring: use an enumeration for io_uring_register(2) opcodes

[Jens Axboe]

On 7/16/20 2:16 PM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 16/07/2020 15:48, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
>> The enumeration allows us to keep track of the last
>> io_uring_register(2) opcode available.
>>
>> Behaviour and opcodes names don't change.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h | 27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
>>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h b/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h
>> index 7843742b8b74..efc50bd0af34 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h
>> @@ -253,17 +253,22 @@ struct io_uring_params {
>>  /*
>>   * io_uring_register(2) opcodes and arguments
>>   */
>> -#define IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS		0
>> -#define IORING_UNREGISTER_BUFFERS	1
>> -#define IORING_REGISTER_FILES		2
>> -#define IORING_UNREGISTER_FILES		3
>> -#define IORING_REGISTER_EVENTFD		4
>> -#define IORING_UNREGISTER_EVENTFD	5
>> -#define IORING_REGISTER_FILES_UPDATE	6
>> -#define IORING_REGISTER_EVENTFD_ASYNC	7
>> -#define IORING_REGISTER_PROBE		8
>> -#define IORING_REGISTER_PERSONALITY	9
>> -#define IORING_UNREGISTER_PERSONALITY	10
>> +enum {
>> +	IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS,
>> +	IORING_UNREGISTER_BUFFERS,
>> +	IORING_REGISTER_FILES,
>> +	IORING_UNREGISTER_FILES,
>> +	IORING_REGISTER_EVENTFD,
>> +	IORING_UNREGISTER_EVENTFD,
>> +	IORING_REGISTER_FILES_UPDATE,
>> +	IORING_REGISTER_EVENTFD_ASYNC,
>> +	IORING_REGISTER_PROBE,
>> +	IORING_REGISTER_PERSONALITY,
>> +	IORING_UNREGISTER_PERSONALITY,
>> +
>> +	/* this goes last */
>> +	IORING_REGISTER_LAST
>> +};
> 
> It breaks userspace API. E.g.
> 
> #ifdef IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS

It can, yes, but we have done that in the past. In this one, for
example:

commit 9e3aa61ae3e01ce1ce6361a41ef725e1f4d1d2bf (tag: io_uring-5.5-20191212)
Author: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Dec 11 15:55:43 2019 -0700

    io_uring: ensure we return -EINVAL on unknown opcod

But it would be safer/saner to do this like we have the done the IOSQE_
flags.

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Jens Axboe