On 1/28/19 7:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> [please make sure linux-api and linux-man are CCed on new syscalls
> so that we get API experts to review them]
> 
>> io_uring_enter(fd, to_submit, min_complete, flags)
>>      Initiates IO against the rings mapped to this fd, or waits for
>>      them to complete, or both. The behavior is controlled by the
>>      parameters passed in. If 'to_submit' is non-zero, then we'll
>>      try and submit new IO. If IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS is set, the
>>      kernel will wait for 'min_complete' events, if they aren't
>>      already available. It's valid to set IORING_ENTER_GETEVENTS
>>      and 'min_complete' == 0 at the same time, this allows the
>>      kernel to return already completed events without waiting
>>      for them. This is useful only for polling, as for IRQ
>>      driven IO, the application can just check the CQ ring
>>      without entering the kernel.
> 
> Especially with poll support now in the series, don't we need a ѕigmask
> argument similar to pselect/ppoll/io_pgetevents now to deal with signal
> blocking during waiting for events?

Is there any way to avoid passing in the sigset_t size? If it's just a
32-bit/64-bit thing, surely the in_compat_syscall() could cover it? Or
are there other cases that need to be catered to?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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