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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-28 09:43:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-28 10:40:47 -0700
commita11e1d432b51f63ba698d044441284a661f01144 (patch)
tree9f3c5a10bf0d7f9a342d5fb39c0c35ea14170124 /include/crypto
parentf57494321cbf5b1e7769b6135407d2995a369e28 (diff)
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Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL
The poll() changes were not well thought out, and completely unexplained. They also caused a huge performance regression, because "->poll()" was no longer a trivial file operation that just called down to the underlying file operations, but instead did at least two indirect calls. Indirect calls are sadly slow now with the Spectre mitigation, but the performance problem could at least be largely mitigated by changing the "->get_poll_head()" operation to just have a per-file-descriptor pointer to the poll head instead. That gets rid of one of the new indirections. But that doesn't fix the new complexity that is completely unwarranted for the regular case. The (undocumented) reason for the poll() changes was some alleged AIO poll race fixing, but we don't make the common case slower and more complex for some uncommon special case, so this all really needs way more explanations and most likely a fundamental redesign. [ This revert is a revert of about 30 different commits, not reverted individually because that would just be unnecessarily messy - Linus ] Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/crypto')
-rw-r--r--include/crypto/if_alg.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/crypto/if_alg.h b/include/crypto/if_alg.h
index cc414db9da0a..482461d8931d 100644
--- a/include/crypto/if_alg.h
+++ b/include/crypto/if_alg.h
@@ -245,7 +245,8 @@ ssize_t af_alg_sendpage(struct socket *sock, struct page *page,
int offset, size_t size, int flags);
void af_alg_free_resources(struct af_alg_async_req *areq);
void af_alg_async_cb(struct crypto_async_request *_req, int err);
-__poll_t af_alg_poll_mask(struct socket *sock, __poll_t events);
+__poll_t af_alg_poll(struct file *file, struct socket *sock,
+ poll_table *wait);
struct af_alg_async_req *af_alg_alloc_areq(struct sock *sk,
unsigned int areqlen);
int af_alg_get_rsgl(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, int flags,