On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 07:36:48AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Given that we aren't validating aio_flags in older kernels we can't
> just add this flag as it will be a no-op in older kernels.  I think
> we will have to add IOCB_CMD_PREADV2/IOCB_CMD_WRITEV2 opcodes that
> properly validate all reserved fields or flags first.
> 
> Once we do that I'd really prefer to use the same flags values
> as preadv2/pwritev2 so that we'll only need one set of flags over
> sync/async read/write ops.

I just took another look and we do verify that
aio_reserved1/aio_reserved2 must be zero.  So I think we can just
stick RWF_* into aio_reserved1 and fix that problem that way.
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