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Jens Axboe 2bc0576925 block: don't make REQ_POLLED imply REQ_NOWAIT
Normally these two flags do go together, as the issuer of polled IO
generally cannot wait for resources that will get freed as part of IO
completion. This is because that very task is the one that will complete
the request and free those resources, hence that would introduce a
deadlock.

But it is possible to have someone else issue the polled IO, eg via
io_uring if the request is punted to io-wq. For that case, it's fine to
have the task block on IO submission, as it is not the same task that
will be completing the IO.

It's completely up to the caller to ask for both polled and nowait IO
separately! If we don't allow polled IO where IOCB_NOWAIT isn't set in
the kiocb, then we can run into repeated -EAGAIN submissions and not
make any progress.

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2023-08-09 16:04:07 -06:00
arch Scope-based Resource Management infrastructure 2023-07-04 13:50:38 -07:00
block block: don't make REQ_POLLED imply REQ_NOWAIT 2023-08-09 16:04:07 -06:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto This update includes the following changes: 2023-06-30 21:27:13 -07:00
Documentation More power management updates for 6.5-rc1 2023-07-04 11:22:50 -07:00
drivers zram: take device and not only bvec offset into account 2023-08-05 16:13:15 -06:00
fs afs: Fix accidental truncation when storing data 2023-07-04 12:24:32 -07:00
include block: don't make REQ_POLLED imply REQ_NOWAIT 2023-08-09 16:04:07 -06:00
init Kbuild updates for v6.5 2023-07-01 09:24:31 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.5-2023-07-03 2023-07-03 18:43:10 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel module: fix init_module_from_file() error handling 2023-07-04 10:17:11 -07:00
lib sbitmap: fix batching wakeup 2023-07-21 11:40:20 -06:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm gup: make the stack expansion warning a bit more targeted 2023-07-05 09:33:31 -07:00
net - New Drivers 2023-07-03 11:26:05 -07:00
rust rust: error: impl Debug for Error with errname() integration 2023-06-13 01:24:42 +02:00
samples Char/Misc and other driver subsystem updates for 6.5-rc1 2023-07-03 12:46:47 -07:00
scripts Scope-based Resource Management infrastructure 2023-07-04 13:50:38 -07:00
security Scope-based Resource Management infrastructure 2023-07-04 13:50:38 -07:00
sound ARM: SoC changes for 6.5 2023-06-29 15:28:33 -07:00
tools virtio: features, fixes, cleanups 2023-07-03 15:38:26 -07:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt ARM64: 2023-07-03 15:32:22 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Revert ".gitignore: ignore *.cover and *.mbx" 2023-07-04 15:05:12 -07:00
.mailmap - New Drivers 2023-07-03 10:55:04 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
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CREDITS - Address -Wmissing-prototype warnings 2023-06-26 16:43:54 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS power supply and reset changes for the 6.5 series 2023-07-03 17:23:16 -07:00
Makefile Scope-based Resource Management infrastructure 2023-07-04 13:50:38 -07:00
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