Re: [PATCH 03/31] fs: introduce new ->get_poll_head and ->poll_mask methods
From: Al Viro
Date: Sat Jan 06 2018 - 14:12:48 EST
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 09:00:15AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> ->get_poll_head returns the waitqueue that the poll operation is going
> to sleep on. Note that this means we can only use a single waitqueue
> for the poll, unlike some current drivers that use two waitqueues for
> different events. But now that we have keyed wakeups and heavily use
> those for poll there aren't that many good reason left to keep the
> multiple waitqueues, and if there are any ->poll is still around, the
> driver just won't support aio poll.
*UGH*
Gotta love the optimism, but have you actually done the conversion?
I'm particularly suspicious about the locking rules here...