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aio: Kill ki_users
authorKent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Mon, 13 May 2013 20:42:52 +0000 (13:42 -0700)
committerBenjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:53:12 +0000 (11:53 -0400)
commit57282d8fd744072d6d6f18fa6ebe3cc1149015bf
treefd01d088c8eb9e15ed4b1d486c9868b206b179c7
parent8bc92afcf7f5c598001dd04e62d88f57f6e89e51
aio: Kill ki_users

The kiocb refcount is only needed for cancellation - to ensure a kiocb
isn't freed while a ki_cancel callback is running. But if we restrict
ki_cancel callbacks to not block (which they currently don't), we can
simply drop the refcount.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
fs/aio.c
include/linux/aio.h