Btw, this is also something where we should just disallow certain
system
calls from being done through the asynchronous method.
Yeah. Maybe just a bitmap built from __NR_ constants? I don't know
if we can do it in a way that doesn't require arch maintainer's
attention.
It seems like it would be nice to avoid putting a test in the
handlers themselves, and leave it up to the aio syscall submission
processing.
More interesting is the question about "close()", though. Currently we
have an optimization (fget/fput_light) that basically boils down to
"we
know we are the only owners". That optimization becomes more
"interesting"
with AIO - we need to disable it when fibrils are active (because
other
fibrils or the main thread can do it), but we can still keep it for
the
non-fibril case.
I'll take a look, thanks for pointing it out.
- z
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