Re: [PATCH] io_uring: Add io_uring command support for sockets

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jun 22 2023 - 12:10:20 EST


On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 08:02:37AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 07:20:48AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 04:21:26PM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> > > Enable io_uring commands on network sockets. Create two new
> > > SOCKET_URING_OP commands that will operate on sockets. Since these
> > > commands are similar to ioctl, uses the _IO{R,W} helpers to embedded the
> > > argument size and operation direction. Also allocates a unused ioctl
> > > chunk for uring command usage.
> > >
> > > In order to call ioctl on sockets, use the file_operations->uring_cmd
> > > callbacks, and map it to a uring socket function, which handles the
> > > SOCKET_URING_OP accordingly, and calls socket ioctls.
> > >
> > > This patches was tested by creating a new test case in liburing.
> > > Link: https://github.com/leitao/liburing/commit/3340908b742c6a26f662a0679c4ddf9df84ef431
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> >
> > Isn't this a new version of an older patch?
>
> Yes, this should have tagged as V2.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230406144330.1932798-1-leitao@xxxxxxxxxx/#r

Great, also add what changed below the --- line please.

> > > --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> > > +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> > > @@ -361,6 +361,7 @@ Code Seq# Include File Comments
> > > 0xCB 00-1F CBM serial IEC bus in development:
> > > <mailto:michael.klein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 0xCC 00-0F drivers/misc/ibmvmc.h pseries VMC driver
> > > +0xCC A0-BF uapi/linux/io_uring.h io_uring cmd subsystem
> >
> > This change is nice, but not totally related to this specific one,
> > shouldn't it be separate?
>
> This is related to this patch, since I am using it below, in the
> following part:
>
> +#define SOCKET_URING_OP_SIOCINQ _IOR(0xcc, 0xa0, int)
> +#define SOCKET_URING_OP_SIOCOUTQ _IOR(0xcc, 0xa1, int)
>
> Should I have a different patch, even if they are related?

Yes, as you are not using the 0xa2-0xbf range that you just carved out
here, right? Where did those numbers come from?

thanks,

greg k-h