Re: [PATCH 7/7] aio: implement io_pgetevents

[James Hogan]

Given this:

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 11:14:48PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> +struct __aio_sigset {
> +	sigset_t __user	*sigmask;
> +	size_t		sigsetsize;
> +};

and:

> +asmlinkage long sys_io_pgetevents(aio_context_t ctx_id,
> +				long min_nr,
> +				long nr,
> +				struct io_event __user *events,
> +				struct timespec __user *timeout,
> +				const struct __aio_sigset *sig);

The following paragraph in the commit message would appear to be
misleading since __aio_sigset contains a size:

> Note that unlike many other signal related calls we do not pass a sigmask
> size, as that would get us to 7 arguments, which aren't easily supported
> by the syscall infrastructure.  It seems a lot less painful to just add a
> new syscall variant in the unlikely case we're going to increase the
> sigset size.

Is it possible to correct it before this gets merged?

Thanks
James

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